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XXVIII. On Hamilton’s numbers

1887; Royal Society; Volume: 42; Issue: 251-257 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspl.1887.0100

2053-9126

J.J. Sylvester, James Hammond,

History and Theory of Mathematics

In the year 1786 Erland Samuel Bring, Professor at the University of Lund in Sweden, discovered that by the method of Tschirnhausen it was possible to deprive the general algebraical equation of the 5th degree of three of its terms without solving an equation higher than the 3rd degree. By a well understood, however singular, academical fiction, this discovery was imputed by him to one of his own pupils, one Sven Gustaf Sommelius, and embodied in a thesis humbly submitted to himself for approval by that pupil, as a preliminary to his obtaining his degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University.