PELETIER DU MANS, Jacques. L'Algèbre de Iaques Peletier du Mans, Départie en deux liuvres. 1620.

PELETIER DU MANS, Jacques.

L'Algèbre de Iaques Peletier du Mans, Départie en deux liuvres.

Cologne, Jean de Tournes, 1620.

12mo (168x94 mm), (6)-226-(4) pages. Pages 131 to 143 misnumberred. binding : Contemporary full vellum. Worn. Minor wormholes on margin and some waterstains.

Third edition, very rare, of "the first printed book on algebra in French and the richest among vernacular books on algebra".

references: DSB [X, p. 494 : "Peletier wrote 'L'algèbre' in French in his own orthographic style. He adopted several ingenious ideas from Stifel's 'Arithmetica integra' (1544) and showed himself to have been strongly influenced by Cardano (...) He was the first mathematician to see relations between coefficients and roots of equations"].

Price : 1200 €

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