Euler, Leonhard. Introductio in analysin infinitorum. Losanna, Bousquet, 1748.
In quarto (235 x 190 mm); [2], XVI, 320; [2] 398, [2] pagine. Antiporta allegorica, ritratto fuori testo, 40 tavole incise in rame ripiegate, una tabella ripiegata (quaderno H nel vol. I posposto, bruniture e fioriture sparse.) Legatura coeva in bazzana marrone, dorsi con fregi in oro (stanca, piccole mancanze). Timbro "Bibliotheca Bernensis"; ex libris Bernhard Studer.
Primo dei tre fondamentali trattati di matematica analitica di Euler, il più grande matematico del Settecento con la bella provenienza del geologo svizzero Bernhard Studer (1794-1887). PMM 196: “Euler did for modern anlysis what Euclid had done for ancient geometry. It contains an exposition of algebra, trigonometry and analytical geometry, both plane and solid, a definition of logarithms as exponents, and important contributions to the theory of equations. He evolved the modern exponential treatment of logarithms, including the fact that each number has an infinity of natural logarithms. In the early chapters there appears for the first time the definition of mathematical function, one of the fundamental concepts of modern mathematics.”
First edition of a landmark work in mathematics
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