Development of the Number Concept — From the Algebraic Principle to the Global Organization of Algebra

Abstract

From the static description in Chapter XI of what was called the algebraic principle, we now pass to its development.

With the introduction of the sign x¹² for the 12th power of x the newer analysis started.

The method of the algebraic letter calculus is, indeed, not implicit to the objective-intuitive number theory.

C. G. J. Jacobi (L. Koenigsberger, C. G. J. Jacobi, Leipzig, 1904, p. 390)

D. Hilbert, Über das Unendliche, 1927