References for Eduard Kummer

1. K R Biermann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Articles:

3. R Calinger, The mathematics seminar at the University of Berlin : origins, founding, and the Kummer-Weierstrass years, in Vita mathematica (Washington, DC, 1996), 153-176.
4. H M Edwards, Mathematical ideas, ideals, and ideology, The Mathematical intelligencer 14 (1992), 6-18.
5. H M Edwards, Kummer, Eisenstein, and higher reciprocity laws, in Number theory related to Fermat's last theorem (Boston, Mass., 1982), 31-43.
6. H M Edwards, The background of Kummer's proof of Fermat's last theorem for regular primes, Arch. History Exact Sci. 14 (3) (1975), 219-236.
7. K Hensel, Festschrift zur Feier des 100. Geburtstages Eduard Kummers (Leipzig-Berlin, 1910), 1-37.
8. K Hensel, Gedächtnisrede auf Ernst Eduard Kummer, Nachrufe auf Berliner Mathematiker des 19. Jahrhunderts (Leipzig, 1988), 72-111.
9. W Narkiewicz, Mathematics at Breslau University during the time of Kummer (Polish), Wiadom. Mat. 28 (2) (1990), 195-203.
10. H Pieper, C G J Jacobis, Urteile über den Mathematiker E E Kummer, NTM Schr. Geschichte Natur. Tech. Medizin 25 (1) (1988), 23-36.
11. P Ribenboim, Kummer's ideas on Fermat's last theorem, Enseign. Math. (2) 29 (1-2) (1983), 165-177.
12. G Terjanian, L'oeuvre arithmétique de Kummer, Gaz. Math. 66 (1995), 45-53.

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