GEOMETRES FRANCAIS DU DIX-HUITIEME SIECLE. [First Edn.]

by Nielsen, Niels; Norlund, N., ed

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Copenhague:: Levin & Munksgaard,, 1935. In lightly-worn wrappers; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; edges untrimmed; contents clean & bright; otherwise, condition quite good.. Nielsen (1865-1931) `mathematician, Univ. of Copenhagen...wrote extensively on classes of special functions...& on history of Mathematics'--DSB. ||| Covers--work & thought of d'Alembert, Bezout, Carre, the Cassini family, Clairaut, l'Hopital, Maupertuis--over 150 18th-c. French mathematics theorists, geographers, astronomers, artillerists, et al. ||| In 1929 Nielsen had published `Geometres Francais sous la Revolution,' his other history of French mathematicians.