no. 2
Leonard Dickson's History of the Theory of Numbers: An historical study with mathematical implications
[History of the theory of numbers de Leonard Dickson : étude historique avec des prolongements mathématiques]
Revue d'histoire des mathématiques, Tome 5 (1999) no. 2, pp. 159-179.

En 1911, le mathématicien Leonard Dickson s'est lancé dans une étude historique de la théorie des nombres, qui a culminé avec la publication de son History of the Theory of Numbers en trois volumes. Notre étude examine la genèse de ce travail, l'approche historiographique qui la sous-tend et les contributions mathématiques qui en découlent.

In 1911, the research mathematician Leonard Dickson embarked on a historical study of the theory of numbers which culminated in the publication of his three-volume History of the Theory of Numbers. This paper discusses the genesis of this work, the historiographic style revealed therein, and the mathematical contributions which arose out of it.

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