References for Gotthold Eisenstein

1. K R Biermann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901299.html
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9032165/Ferdinand-Gotthold-Max-Eisenstein

Books:

3. A Weil, Elliptic functions according to Eisenstein and Kronecker (Berlin, 1999).

Articles:

4. W Ahrens, Gotthold Eisenstein, Deutsche allgemeine Zeitung 177 (1923).
5. K-R Biermann, Die Briefe A v Humbolds an F G M Eisenstein, Alexander von Humboldt Gedenkschrift (Berlin, 1959), 117-159.
6. K-R Biermann, Gotthold Eisenstein : Die wichtigsten Daten seines Lebens und Wirkens, J. Reine Angew. Math. 214 (1964), 19-30.
7. H M Edwards, Kummer, Eisenstein, and higher reciprocity laws, in Number theory related to Fermat's last theorem (Boston, Mass., 1982), 31-43.
8. R C Laubenbacher, Gauss, Eisenstein, and the 'third' proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem, The Mathematical intelligencer 16 (1994), 67-72.
9. S J Patterson, Eisenstein and the quintic equation, Historia Mathematica 17 (1990), 132-140.
10. N Schappacher, Gotthold Eisenstein, in Mathematics in Berlin (Berlin, 1998), 55-60.
11. J Stillwell, Eisenstein's footnote, The Mathematical intelligencer 17 (2) (1995), 58-62.
12. H Warnecke, Gotthold Eisenstein (1823-1852) - ein mathematisches und hochschulpädagogisches Talent aus Berlin, Wiss. Z. Humboldt-Univ. Berlin Math.-Natur. Reihe 37 (2) (1988), 187-193.
13. A Weil, On Eisenstein's copy of the 'Disquisitiones', in Algebraic number theory (Boston, MA, 1989), 463-469.

May 2000