Are there any historical articles about the origins of zeta functions of curves over global fields (undoubtedly starting with $\mathbb{Q}$)? In particular who (and when did this happen) first have the idea of creating such a thing? Was it by analogy with the zeta functions of number fields?
Historical Articles about zeta functions of curves
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