Galois, Evariste
OEUVRES MATHÉMATIQUES [IN] JOURNAL DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES, TOME XI ANNÉE 1846, PP.381-444. PARIS: BACHELIER, 1846
LOT SOLD.
8,125 GBP
Details & Cataloguing
Music, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Continental Books
|
London
London
Galois, Evariste
OEUVRES MATHÉMATIQUES [IN] JOURNAL DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES, TOME XI ANNÉE 1846, PP.381-444. PARIS: BACHELIER, 1846
4to (281 x 224mm.), original printed wrappers, uncut, in modern chemise and slipcase, light foxing, backstrip slightly torn at foot
Read Condition Report
Read Condition Report
Catalogue Note
FIRST EDITION, published posthumously by Joseph Liouville, the editor of the journal. Galois (1811-1832) died young but he had already published papers on number theory. "Galois's terse style, combined with the great originality of his thought and the modernity of his conceptions, contributed as much as the delay in publication to the length of time that passed before Galois's work was understood, recognized at its true worth, and fully developed... It was only with the publication in 1866 of the third edition of Alfred Serret's Cours d'algébre supérieure and, in 1870, of Camille Jordan's Traité des substitutions that group theory and the whole of Galois's oeuvre were truly integrated into the body of mathematics" (DSB V, p.264).
Suggested Lots
Music, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Continental Books
|
London
London
