Description

This is a new annotated edition of Thomas J. Stieltjes' Collected Papers published earlier in 1914 (Vol. I) and 1918 (Vol. II) by Noordhoff, Groningen, in French. The new edition is published by Springer-Verlag in two volumes (only available in one set) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Stieltjes' death (1894). This book is of great interest for all mathematicians anxious to understand the impact of Stieltjes' work on modern mathematics, and in particular on the theory of orthogonal polynomials and continued fractions. The book contains, besides the reproduction of Stieltjes' papers, about 75 pages of commentaries by contemporary mathematicians on Stieltjes' work as well as an English translation of his main paper "Recherches sur les fractions continues" and of his short note regarding the Riemann hypothesis.