31st Mar, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Autographs & Memorabilia

 
  Lot 7
 

Bézout (Étienne)

Bézout (Étienne)

Theorie Generale des Equations Algebriques, FIRST EDITION, woodcut headpieces and device to title, a little dustsoiling, some foxing to peripheral leaves, contemporary mottled sheep, marbled endpapers, a.e.r., rubbed and worn, short crack to front joint, [Poggendorf I:184-5], 4to, P.D.Pierres, Paris, 1779.

*** A fundamental work on the theory of elimination. "The degree of the final equation resulting from any number of complete equations in the same number of unknowns, and of any degrees, is equal to the product of the degrees of the equations” (DSB.)


 

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