Traité des Substitutions et des Équations algébriques

by Camille Jordan

$14,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1870. First edition, very rare, of “the book that established group theory as a subject in its own right in mathematics” Gray, p. 149 . “Jordan’s monumental work, Traité des Substitutions et des Équations algébriques, published in 1870, is a masterpiece of mathematical architecture. The beauty of the edifice erected by Jordan is admirable” Van der Waerden, A

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