STERN. [MORITZ ABRAHAM].

Theorie der Kettenbrüche und ihre Anwendung. I-IV.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1833. 4to. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 1848.". Entire issue offered in the original printed wrappers, without backstrip. Fine and clean. [Entire volume: 392 pp.].

First printing of Stern's important papers on continued fractions which is the first systematic summary of the theory.

As a professor at Göttingen University Stern taught Bernhard Riemann along with Gauss. Stern also helped Ferdinand Eisenstein in formulating a proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem.

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