TANNERY, Correspondance entre Lejeune Dirichlet et Liouville, 1910
TANNERY, Jules.
Correspondance entre Lejeune Dirichlet et Liouville.
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1910.
8vo (255x167 mm), (4)-42 pages. binding : Original printed wrappers.
First edition. Correspondence chosen by Jules Tannery between the mathematicians Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) and Gustav LeJeune-Dirichlet (1805-1859) specialists in number theory. During the summer of 1839, during a visit to Paris, Dirichlet met Joseph Liouville during a dinner at Cauchy. From that date, their exchanges became more frequent and they soon became great friends, exchanging regular scientific correspondence.