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D'OCAGNE, Nomographie Les Calculs usuels au moyen des abaques, 1891
D'OCAGNE, Maurice.
Nomographie : Les Calculs usuels effectués au moyen des abaques : essai d'une théorie générale, règles pratiques, exemples d'application.
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1891.
8vo (255x166 mm), (6)-96-(1) pages and 8 plates. binding : Original printed wrappers. Cover worn.
First edition.
D'Ocagne's first publication on nomography. Maurice d'Ocagne (1862-1938) was a French engineer and mathematician. He is the promoter in France of a method of graphic resolution of algebraic equations using abacuses, which he called nomography.
references: DSB [X, 170 :" In 1912, D'Ocagne was appointed professor of geometry at the Ecole Polytechnique. He was elected to the Académie des Sciences (1922). Active both as researcher and teacher, D'Ocagne published a great many articles, mostly on geometry, in mathematical journals and in the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences.". ].
provenance: Former library stamps.
Price : 40 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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