The edition of Bernhard Riemann’s collected works: Then and now

Abstract

Bernhard Riemann’s collected works were published for the first time in 1876 by Richard Dedekind and Heinrich Weber. The editors’ correspondence and the available archive tell us that the process of editing Riemann’s collected works was a hands-on process, which is itself of historical and mathematical significance. In this paper, we show how the editors shaped the published texts, and how this can influence our reading of them.