LACROIX, Sylvestre Francois. Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral. 1797-1798-1800.
LACROIX, Sylvestre Francois.
Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral.
Paris, J.B.M. Duprat, 1797-1798-1800.
Three 4to(258x199 mm), xxxii-519-(5) pages and 4 folding plates / (2)-viii-732 pages, 2 tables and 2 folding plates / (2)-viii-582 pages and 1 folding plate. binding : Volumes I & II in modern blue cloth, volume III in later half vellum. Minor marginal foxing. Stain at the top of volume 3. Volume 3 untrimmed.
First edition.
Rare with the third volume, published separatly, under the title "Traité des différences et des séries" and that will be included in the second edition of the "Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral".
references: DSB [VII p.550 : "The first volume of Lacroix's treatise on the calculs, in which he united all the scattered methods, harmonized them, developed them, and joined has own ideas to them, appeared in 1797. It was followed by a second volume in 1798, and a third appeared in 1800 under the title - Traité des différences et des séries - (a second edition appeared in three volumes [1810, 1814, 1819]). This monumental work constituted a clear picture of mathematical analysis, documented and completely up to date. While Lacroix followed Euler on many points, he incorporated the various advances made since the middle on the eighteenth century. The treatise is a very successful synthesis of the works of Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Monge, Legendre, Poisson, Gauss, and Cauchy, whose writings are followed up to the year 1819"].
provenance: Ivor Grattan-Guiness (ex libris). Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness (1941–2014) was a historian of mathematics and logic. He was awarded the Kenneth O. May Medal for services to the History of Mathematics by the International Commission on the History of Mathematics on 2009.
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