Opus Mathematicum In Quo Vtraque Algebra Vetus Scilicet Noua A Se In Opere Hac De Re Pridem Edito

by Carlo Rinaldini

$8,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Bologna: ex typographia H.H. Ducij Evangelista Dozza , 1655. First edition, second issue, of this rare exegesis of the work of the great French mathematician François Viète 1540–1603 on the theory of equations; Rinaldini’s work acted as a bridge for the transition from the symbolic algebra introduced by Viète to the methods of Descartes. The first part of Rinaldini’s work is an explication of Viète’s

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