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[LOBACHEVSKY] Algebra ili vychislenie konechnykh [Algebra or the Calculus of Finite Numbers]

Lobachevskii, Nikolay

Item #2072

Kazan: V Universitetskoy tipografii, 1834. X, 528, [2 -errata] p. 21,5x13 cm.

Contemporary half-leather. Neatly rebacked. Period inventory number on the title page in ink, likely of private library. No other marks throughout the block, book was not used in any educational library. Overall in very good condition.

Nikolay Lobachevsky (1792-1856) without a doubt was one of the brightest minds that came out of Russian scientific field in the last 300 years. His groundbreaking critics of Euclid
principles came out in a small university paper in Kazan in 1830s. Although now it’s obvious that that particular theory was Lobachevsky’s main scientific achievement, he was writing papers and books on other topics: algebra, pure mathematics, trigonometry, astronomy, etc. First edition of the only substantial book published in the life-time of the author, in which he demonstrates the immediate numerical determination of algebraic equations, which was also discovered independently at about the same time by the Belgian Dandelain and the Swiss K. Graffe. Lobachevskii was the founder of non-Euclidian geometry publishing his discoveries as On the Principles of Geometry in the Kazan' Messenger in 1829-30, which included his paper read to the University Department of Physics and Mathematics in 1826.

Extremely rare. Physical copies located at Harvard, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Linda Hall Library.

Price: $19,500.00