Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volume I

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volume IFew explorers have had the experience of uncovering a civilization almost entirely unknown to the world. But Stephen's two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 1839 and 1841 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. In this work, and in his other masterpiece Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, he tells the story of his travels to some 50 ruined Mayan cities. In this book, he describes the excitement of exploring the

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Anecdotes from the personal documents of Einstein

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Chapter VI (Classical Ideal Theory) ends with an elementary proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebraic Number Theory for the special case of Galois extensions of the rational field

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the authors develop the theoretical material at length

Shilov begins with an extensive and important chapter on the basic structures of mathematical analysis: linear spaces

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