Format:
1 online resource (xv, 327 pages)
ISBN:
9780511701979
,
9781108002110
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Mathematics
Content:
In 1770, one of the founders of pure mathematics, the Swiss-born mathematician Leonard Euler (1707–1783), published an algebra textbook for students. It was soon translated into French, with notes and additions by Joseph-Louis Lagrange, another giant of eighteenth-century mathematics, and the French edition was used as the basis of this three-volume 1790s German edition. Volume 3 consists of the German translation of Lagrange's additional material, which the German publisher printed in a separate volume to enable those who already owned Euler's Algebra to obtain the supplementary material 'without incurring unnecessary expenditure'. The translator (the tutor to the sons of the Duke of Württemberg) added notes and further appendices of his own. This book provides tangible evidence of the lively international mathematical community that flourished despite the political uncertainties of the late eighteenth century.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108002110
Additional Edition:
Euler, Leonhard, 1707 - 1783 Vollständige Anleitung zur niedern und höhern Algebra ; 3 Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2009 ISBN 9781108002110
Language:
German
Subjects:
Mathematics
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511701979
Author information:
Euler, Leonhard 1707-1783
