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In the Product Flyer of the famous book What is Mathematics, it is said that the book by Courant and Robbins is the third of the "Golden Oldies" combing with the books by Rademacher/Toeplitz and Hurwitz( "Dritte Staffel der "Golden Oldies" zusammen mit den beiden modernen Klassikern von Rademacher/Toeplitz und Hurwitz").

It is clear that the book by Rademacher/Toeplitz is The Enjoyment of Math (English Translation). I wonder what is the book by Hurwitz.

Ouyang
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It's somewhat likely they mean his Lectures on Number Theory, which was a classic once upon a time. Although he was a very prolific mathematician, Hurwitz wrote very few books --- in fact, as far as I can tell, this is the only book he ever wrote.

davidlowryduda
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  • There's also Vorlesungen über Allgemeine Funktionentheorie und Elliptische Funktionen by Hurwitz with additions by Courant: http://www.amazon.com/Vorlesungen-Allgemeine-Funktionentheorie-Elliptische-Funktionen/dp/3662317699/ – Hans Lundmark Jun 16 '15 at 10:29
  • Thanks a lot. The point is that the style of these two books is quite different from the style of What is Mathematics and The Enjoyment of Math. Moreover, according to the [Obituary of Hurwitz(http://www.numbertheory.org/obituaries/LMS/hurwitz/page5.html), the only publication in book form of Hurwitz is a reprint of one of his papers on Quaternion Theory of Numbers. @Hans Lundmark – Ouyang Jun 16 '15 at 13:30
  • Yes, it is a bit weird. Maybe they just meant somebody else but confused the names... – Hans Lundmark Jun 16 '15 at 14:43