From the Preface (K. Chandrasekharan, 1966): "The publication of this
collection of papers is intended as a service to the mathematical
community, as well as a tribute to the genius of CARL LUDWIG SIEGEL, who
is rising seventy.In the wide range of his interests, in his capacity to
uncover, to attack, and to subdue problems of great significance and
difficulty, in his invention of new concepts and ideas, in his technical
prowess, and in the consummate artistry of his presentation, SIEGEL
resembles the classical figures of mathematics. In his combination of
arithmetical, analytical, algebraical, and geometrical methods of
investigation, and in his unerring instinct for the conceptual and
structural, as distinct from the merely technical, aspects of any
concrete problem, he represents the best type of modern mathematical
thought. At once classical and modern, his work has profoundly
influenced the mathematical culture of our time."Volume I includes
Siegel's papers written between 1921 and 1937.