GOURSAT, Leçons sur l’Intégration des Équations Dérivées Partielles, 1896-1898
GOURSAT, Édouard.
Leçons sur l’intégration des équations aux dérivées partielles du second ordre à deux variables indépendantes.
Paris, A. Hermann, 1896-1898.
Two parts in one volume 8vo (236x155 mm), viii-226 pages / (6)-344 pages. binding : Contemporary quarter sheep, spine in five compartments. Spine faded.
First edition. Presentation copy to Emile Picard (1856-1941). Goursat and Picard were of the same generation and had known each other since their student days (Henri IV then ENS). In November 1897, Goursat succeeded Picard as full professor of the chair of differential and integral calculus at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris.