Emil Artin and Beyond - Class Field Theory and L-Functions

I. Class field theory: From Artin's course in Hamburg to Chevalley's "Éléments idéaux

• Claude Chevalley's thesis on class field theory and his notion of "Éléments idéaux
• Introduction
• Letter from Claude Chevalley to Helmut Hasse, June 20, 1935
• Letter from Helmut Hasse to Claude Chevalley, June 28, 1935

II. Creating a life: Emil Artin in America

• Emigration, immigration and pre-remigration
• Introduction
• Letter from Solomon Lefschetz to Father John O'Hara, January 12, 1937

III. The collaboration of Emil Artin and George Whaples

• The work of Artin and Whaples--A conceptual breakthrough in algebraic number theory
• Introduction
• George Whaples' application to the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Mathematics, Princeton, NJ, February 10, 1941

IV. Margaret Matchett: Artin's student at Indiana and her thesis

• Margaret Matchett and her thesis "On the zeta function for ideles"
• Introduction
• Margaret Mathcett's doctoral dissertation "On the zeta function for ideles"

V. L-functions by James W. Cogdell

• L-functions and non-abelian class field theory, from Artin to Langlands

VI. Automorphic L-functions by Robert P. Langlands

• Letter from Robert Langlands to André Weil, January 1967
• Funktorialität in der Theorie der automorphen Formen: Ihre Entdeckung und ihre Ziele
• Einführung

• Bibliography
• Index