Das Buch liefert eine ausführliche Darstellung der klassischen Theorie der elliptischen Funktionen von Weierstraß und Jacobi und ihre Verbindungen zur Theorie der Riemannschen Flächen sowie der Modul- und Thetafunktionen. Autor des Lehrbuchklassikers ist der Mathematiker Dr. Karl Emanuel Robert Fricke (1861 - 1930), der sich in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Felix Klein mit der Funktionentheorie beschäftigte. Während Band 1 die funktionentheoretischen und analytischen Grundlagen beinhaltet, werden in Band 2 die algebraischen Ausführungen dargestellt.
From the reviews:
"In 1916, Robert Fricke's first volume of a planned 3-volume set of textbooks on elliptic functions appeared. ... readers who already have acquired a solid background in Galois theory, algebraic number theory, complex analysis, and complex multiplication will be able to read ... these books in a reasonable amount of time and learn the language that the leading mathematicians of the second half of the 19th century were using. ... Frick's books open the doors to the classical literature on complex multiplication ... ." (Franz Lemmermeyer, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1230, 2012)
"In 1916, Robert Fricke's first volume of a planned 3-volume set of textbooks on elliptic functions appeared. ... readers who already have acquired a solid background in Galois theory, algebraic number theory, complex analysis, and complex multiplication will be able to read ... these books in a reasonable amount of time and learn the language that the leading mathematicians of the second half of the 19th century were using. ... Frick's books open the doors to the classical literature on complex multiplication ... ." (Franz Lemmermeyer, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1230, 2012)