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LAGRANGE, JOSEPH-LOUIS. 1736-1813.
Theorie des fonctions analytiques. Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797.

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LAGRANGE, JOSEPH-LOUIS. 1736-1813.

Theorie des fonctions analytiques. Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797.
4to (270 x 213 mm). 277 pp. Contemporary shellacked linen and marbled boards, paper spine label. Wear to binding, repairs to half-title and title page at lower inside corner, inked library markings on title.
Provenance: Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (ink stamp on title).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE before the addition of the errata leaf. Italian-born Joseph-Louis Lagrange (originally Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia) succeeded Leonhard Euler as director of mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences, before moving to the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris in 1787. He made significant contributions to the advancement of number theory and celestial mechanics, and contributed to the conversion to the decimal system in Revolutionary France. Theorie Des Fonctions Analytiques deals with the general theory of functions, and their applications to geometry and mechanics.

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