8vo, viii-386-(1) pages. binding : Original printed wrappers. Cover worn. First cover and first booklet unbound.
First edition. Édouard Goursat (1858-1936) was a French mathematician, a member of the Institut, and a professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. He is best known for his work on functions of a complex variable and partial differential equations. This work is a series of lectures on the Pfaff problem, a problem in differential geometry that has applications in theoretical physics.