Memoire Sur Les Equations Algebriques Ou On Demontre L Impossibilite De La Resolution De

by Niels Henrik Abel

$165,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Christiana: Groendahl, 1824. First edition of this “publication now considered one of the greatest rarities in mathematical literature” Ore, p. 73 , as well as one of the most famous. This is likely the only copy in private hands. It contains the first complete proof albeit with some vagueness due to the extreme brevity of the work that the general polynomial of degree at least 5 is not

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