Note on a theorem of Hilbert.
Note on a theorem of Hilbert.
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10.1007/bf01199965
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发表时间:
1920-01-01
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0.8
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Hardy, GH
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Hardy, GH
1. It was proved by Hilbert, in the course of his in~ s~ g~ tions in the theory of integral equations, that the series ao~ n q-n is vonvergen $ whenever~ am is co~ vergent. Of this theorem, whioh i~ one of the simplest and moat beautiful in the theory of double series of positive terms, at least five essentially different proofs have been published. Hilbert's own proof, which depends upon the theory of Fourier's series, is outlined by Weyl in his Inaugural-DissertationS). Another proof was given by WienerS), and two more by Schur~); but none of these proofs is as simple anti elementary as might be desired. Thus S chur's first proof depends upon the theory of quadratic and biline~ r forms in an in~ igy of variables; and his seeon& (which is unquestionably the most elegant of all) on a change of variables in a double integral. And Wiener's proof, while genuinely elementary, is distinctly artificial. To these four proofs I added recently 4) a fifth which seemed go me to lack nothing in simplicity. I observed first that Hilbert's theorem is an immediate corollaxy of another theorem wtiieh seems of Some interest in itself. This theorem is as follows: i) H. Weyl,,~ Singul~, re Integralgleichungen", GS t~ en 1908, p. 88.-2) FW Wiener,~ Elemen~ arer Beweis eines R~ ensa~ es yon Herrn Hilbert", Math. Annalen, 88 (19i0), I? P. 861--866.~) I. Schur,. Bemerkungen zur Theorie der besch~ nkten Bi~ earformen m~ t unendlieh vielen Ver~ nderlichen", Jo, u~ nal fiiz Math., 1~ 0 (1912), pp. 1~ 28. 4) GH Hardy,, Notes on some points in the integral oaleulus (51), Messenger of Mathematics, 48 (1918), pp, 107--! 12.