CAYLEY, ARTHUR.

An Elementary Treatise on Elliptic Functions.

Cambridge, Deighton, Bell and Co., 1876. Orig. full brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Spine ends slightly frayed. Some discolouring to endcover. Light wear to extremities. X,(1),384pp. + Publisher's catalogue 16 pp. Internally clean and fine. From the library of the Englsih mathematician F.S. Carey, having his name on upper part of titlepage. "F.S. Carey/Trin. Coll. Cam."

First edition of the only published book by the famous British mathematician. Cayley's aimed at treeting elleiptic functions by "pure algebra" and to fill in the gaps left by Jacobi. "For most of his life Cayley worked incessantly at mathematics, theoretical dynamics, and mathematical astronomy. He published only one full-lenght book, "Treatise on Elliptic Functions" (the item offered); but his output of papers and memoirs was prodigious, numbering nearly a thousand, the bulk of them since published in thitteen large quarto volumes. His work was greatly appreciated from the time of its publication, and he did not have to wait for mathematical fame." (DSB).

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