Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 480 pages)
ISBN:
9780511693199
,
9781108001731
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Mathematics
Content:
Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833), one of the great French mathematicians active in the Revolutionary period, made important contributions to number theory, statistics, mathematical analysis and algebra. He taught at the École Militaire, where he was a colleague of Laplace, and made his name with a paper on the trajectory of projectiles which won a prize of the Berlin Academy in 1782, and brought him to the attention of Lagrange. In 1794 he published Eléments de géométrie, which remained a textbook for over 100 years. The first edition of his Essai sur la théorie des nombres was published in 1798, and the much improved second edition, which is offered here, in 1808. In it Legendre had taken account of criticism by Gauss of the mathematical proofs in the first edition, though he was bitter at the manner in which his younger rival had claimed credit for some of his solutions.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108001731
Additional Edition:
Legendre, Adrien Marie, 1752 - 1833 Essai sur la théorie des nombres Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010 ISBN 9781108001731
Language:
French
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511693199
