Memoire Sur Une Propriete Generale D Une Classe Tres Etendue De Fonctions Transcendantes

by Niels Henrik Abel

$3,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Imprimé par autorisation du roi a l’Imprimerie Royale, 1841. First edition, journal issue in original printed wrappers, of “the most important single result in the theory of integrals of algebraic functions … Abel’s theorem” Bottazzini & Gray, p. 236 , a result which Legendre called ‘a monument more lasting than bronze’. It can be regarded as the birth of algebraic geometry.

• Binding: Wrappers

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