AGNESI, Maria Gaetana. Traités élémentaires de calcul différentiel et de calcul intégral. Traduits de l'italien de Mademoiselle Agnesi, avec des additions. 1775.
AGNESI, Maria Gaetana.
Traités élémentaires de calcul différentiel et de calcul intégral. Traduits de l'italien de Mademoiselle Agnesi, avec des additions.
Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1775.
8vo (200x123 mm), iv-500 pages and six folding plates. binding : Contemporary full mottled calf, , gilt spine in six compartment, red edges, marbled endpapers. A few small chips to the binding, otherwise very good copy.
First edition in french.
Agnesi is according to DSB : "the first woman in the Western world who can accurately be called a mathematician".
Rare treatise on algebra and analysis which met a great success.
It was considered as the clearest, the more methodical and the most comprehensive work on the subject.
references: DSB [I, p.75/76].
Price : 2000 €