Paris: De l’imprimerie Royale, chez Debure frères, 1821. First edition, an exceptionally fine copy, of this classic in the history of mathematics, which gives the first rigorous definitions of the notions of limit, continuity and convergence of infinite series, as well as the first comprehensive theory of functions of a...... More
Item #5345
Paris: de Bure Frères, 1829. First edition, very rare, of Cauchy’s important memoir on the determination of the real roots of polynomial equations. As stated in the ‘Avertissement’, this is a (separately-paginated) offprint from Cauchy’s Exercises de Mathématiques, Quatrième Année, 1829 (journal pagination 65-128). The problem of determining the real..... More
Item #4460
Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, chez Debure frères, 1823. First edition of the rarest of Cauchy’s three great textbooks, which placed “the fundamental principles of the calculus on a satisfactory foundation” (Smith, History of Mathematics II, p. 700). The Résumé, often referred to as the Calcul infinitésimal, is divided into 40..... More
Item #5815
[Budweis, or Prague?]: N.p., August 1836. First edition, exceptionally rare. “As early as August 1836 Cauchy had a memoire ‘Sur la théorie de la lumière’ lithographed in Budweis [now in the Czech Republic], which contains the main features of the whole of today’s theory” (Grailich, p. 74, note, our translation)..... More
Item #5311