Elemente der Euklidischen Geometrie. Göttingen, Wintersemester 1898/99. Mechanically reproduced manuscript in a professional copyist’s hand

by David Hilbert

$12,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Göttingen: 1899. First printing, extremely rare, of Hilbert’s classic lectures on the foundations of geometry, delivered during the 1898-99 winter semester at Göttingen. It precedes the revised and expanded published version, retitled “Grundlagen der Geometrie,” that was included in the Festschrift zur Feier der Enthüllung des Gauss-Weber-Denkmals in Göttingen 1899 . This prepublication version, reproduced from a professionally

• Printing: first

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