Insights into Dedekind and Weber's edition of Riemann's \textit{Gesammelte Werke}
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Insights into Dedekind and Weber's edition of Riemann's \textit{Gesammelte Werke}
zbMATH Open document ID: 1394.01010
author: Emmylou Haffner
published in: Mathematische Semesterberichte
publication date: 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
review text: The author describes and analyses Dedekind's and Weber's editorial work which led to the edition of Riemann's ``Gesammelte Werke'' in 1876. Due to the close relationship to Riemann, Dedekind was given the responsibility of the edition of these collected works. Dedekind decided to include, in the edition, unpublished texts extracted from Riemann's Nachlass. After A. Clebsch's unexpected death in 1872, Dedekind won over H. Weber as a coeditor. The author describes the troubles that had to be overcome by both editors. Thus, their editorial work involved the tedious process of deciphering, clearing up, reconstructing and in some cases understanding Riemann's manuscripts beside the crucial step of selecting the manuscripts that they considered as interesting, scientifically sound and complete enough. This process is well documented in the correspondence between Dedekind and Weber as well as their preserved notes to Riemann's writings. The author shows by some examples that Dedekind's and Weber's editorial work became an important part of their mathematical practice during the years 1874--1876 and involved deep mathematical work.
reviewed by: Karl Heinz Schlote
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
zbMATH DE Number: 6835168
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s00591-017-0194-3
OpenAlex ID: W2619917274
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DOI: 10.1007/S00591-017-0194-3
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6835168