Solutionem tergemini problematis arithmetici, geometrici et astronomici, una cum adnexis ex universam mathesi corollariis

by Jacob Bernoulli

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First edition

Basel: Mechel, 1687 . First edition, exceptionally rare, of this dissertation which Bernoulli 1655-1705 submitted in order to secure the chair of mathematics at the University of Basel. This was the beginning of a remarkable career in mathematics, in which he “greatly advanced algebra, the infinitesimal calculus, the calculus of variations, mechanics, the theory of series, and the theory of probability and was

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