A contribution to the history of mathematics. While adhering to the basic outlook of Eisenstein and Kronecker, it provides insight into their work in the light ... » 

A contribution to the history of mathematics. While adhering to the basic outlook of Eisenstein and Kronecker, it provides insight into their work in the light of later developments. It is based on Eisenstein's approach to elliptic functions via infinite series over lattices in the complex plane. «