114239-01
Analyse des équations déterminées. Premiere Partie (alles Erschienene).
Paris, Didot, 1831. - (25,5 x 19 cm). (4) XXIV, 258 S. Mit 1 gefalteten lithographierten Tafel. Halbleinwandband der Zeit.
Erste Ausgabe, posthum veröffentlicht von Navier. - "At the time of his death, Fourier was trying to prepare these and many other results for a book to be called 'Analyse des équations déterminées'; he had almost finished only the first two of its seven 'livres'. His friend Navier edited it for publication in 1831 inserting an introduction to establish from attested documents (including the 1789 paper) Fourier's priority on results which had by then become famous. Perhaps Fourier was aware that he would not live to finish the work, for he wrote a synopsis of the complete book which also appeared in the edition. The synopsis indicated his wide interests in the subject, of which the most important not yet mentioned were various means of distinguishing between real and imaginary roots, refinements to the Newton-Raphson method of approximating to the root of an equation, extensions to Daniel Bernoulli's rule for the limiting value of the ratio of successive terms of a recurrent series, and the method of solution and applications of linear inequalities. Fourier's remarkable understanding of the last subject makes him the great anticipator of linear programming" (DSB). - Durchgehend leicht stockfleckig. Die Tafel papierbedingt gering gebräunt. Einband mit Lichtrand. Insgesamt gut erhalten. - DSB 5, 93; Poggendorff I, 783; Cajori, History of Mathematics S. 269
Analyse des équations déterminées. Premiere Partie (alles Erschienene).
Paris, Didot, 1831. - (25,5 x 19 cm). (4) XXIV, 258 S. Mit 1 gefalteten lithographierten Tafel. Halbleinwandband der Zeit.
Erste Ausgabe, posthum veröffentlicht von Navier. - "At the time of his death, Fourier was trying to prepare these and many other results for a book to be called 'Analyse des équations déterminées'; he had almost finished only the first two of its seven 'livres'. His friend Navier edited it for publication in 1831 inserting an introduction to establish from attested documents (including the 1789 paper) Fourier's priority on results which had by then become famous. Perhaps Fourier was aware that he would not live to finish the work, for he wrote a synopsis of the complete book which also appeared in the edition. The synopsis indicated his wide interests in the subject, of which the most important not yet mentioned were various means of distinguishing between real and imaginary roots, refinements to the Newton-Raphson method of approximating to the root of an equation, extensions to Daniel Bernoulli's rule for the limiting value of the ratio of successive terms of a recurrent series, and the method of solution and applications of linear inequalities. Fourier's remarkable understanding of the last subject makes him the great anticipator of linear programming" (DSB). - Durchgehend leicht stockfleckig. Die Tafel papierbedingt gering gebräunt. Einband mit Lichtrand. Insgesamt gut erhalten. - DSB 5, 93; Poggendorff I, 783; Cajori, History of Mathematics S. 269
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