Jean Dieudonné, History of Algebraic Geometry, 1974.
"When I was a student, abelian functions were, as an effect of the
Jacobian tradition, considered the uncontested summit of mathematics,
and each of us was ambitious to make progress in this field.
And now? The younger generation hardly knows abelian functions. "
Felix Klein, Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century, 1928.
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