Cours d’analyse de l’École Polytechnique; I.re Partie. Analyse algébrique

by Augustin-Louis Cauchy

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: De l’imprimerie Royale, chez Debure frères, 1821. First edition, an exceptionally fine copy, of this classic in the history of mathematics, which gives the first rigorous definitions of the notions of limit, continuity and convergence of infinite series, as well as the first comprehensive theory of functions of a complex variable. “In 1821, Augustin-Louis Cauchy 1787-1857 published a textbook,

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