OBSERVATIONS ON THE NOTATION EMPLOYED IN THE CALCULUS OF FUNCTIONS
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Cambridge: J. Smith, 1820, 1815. Presentation copy, inscribed to a mathematician and fellow co-founder of the Astronomical Society, of Babbage's major early-career paper on mathematical notation. Very good. Item #52280 Before Babbage invented the first mechanical computer, he had already distinguished himself as one of the most innovative mathematicians of his lifetime. Observations was quite a remarkable paper,
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