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Babbage, C(harles).
An Essay Towards the Calculus of Functions. Part II. SS. 179-256. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCCXVI, Part II.

London, Bulmer, 1816. - (28 x 22,5 cm). IV S., SS. (179)-366, 4 Bll. Mit 10 Kupfertafeln. Moderner Pappband im Stil der Zeit.

Erste Ausgabe. - "Babbage's major contribution to mathematics was his calculus of function... (He) presented his major ideas on the subject in the above... paper... 'It can be said with some assurance that no mathematician prior to Babbage had treated the calculus of functions in such a systematic way... Babbage must be given full credit as the inventor of a distinct and important branch of mathematics' (Dubbey 1978, 90)" (Origins of Cyberspace). - Tafeln stärker wasserfleckig, Text sauber und gut erhalten. - DSB 1, 354; Origins of Cyberspace 19


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