MARIE, Théorie des Fonctions de Variables Imaginaires, 1874
MARIE, Maximilien.
Théorie des Fonctions de Variables Imaginaires.
Paris, Gauthier villars, 1874.
Three volumes 8vo, (4)-271 pages / (4)-292 pages / (8)-344 pages. binding : Original printed wrappers. Cover worn. Lower cover of vol 1 detached. Spine of vol.3 splitted and broken.
First edition. Maximilien Marie (1819-1891), polytechnician (X 1838) then tutor and examiner at the Ecole Polytechnique. TI: New analytical geometry TII: Application of the method to the general theory of functions TIII: History of this work. The third volume is particularly unusual at this time, it engages in a scientific autobiography in which we can see the progress of his thought and the construction of his mathematical theory.