From the Preface by K. Chandrasekharan: "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. 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... this publication...will no doubt
stimulate generations of scholars to come." Volume III collects Siegel´s
papers from 1945 to 1964.