GAUSS & ROGER, Recherches générales sur les surfaces courbes, 1967
GAUSS, Carl Friedrich || ROGER, Émile.
Recherches générales sur les surfaces courbes.
Paris, Albert Blanchard, 1967.
8vo, (4)-160 pages. binding : Original printed wrappers. Covers faded.
New edition. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) is considered one of the greatest mathematicians in history. His Recherches générales sur les surfaces courbes (General Research on Curved Surfaces) is a foundational text of differential geometry, where he introduced the concepts of curvature and Gaussian curvature. Facsimile reprint of the 1870 edition.