Principia generalia theoriae figurae fluidorum in statu aequilibrii
$1,850 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books
First edition
Göttingen: Dieterich, 1830. First edition, the rare separately-paginated offprint, and a fine copy in original state, of this early contribution of Gauss 1777-1855 to mathematical physics, which contains a fundamental and groundbreaking contribution to the calculus of variations. “Gauss ranks, together with Archimedes and Newton, as one of the greatest geniuses in the history of
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