PEANO EXISTENCE THEOREM

PEANO, GIUSEPPE.

Demonstration de l’intégrabilité des équations différentielles ordinaires.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1890. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 37, 1890. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of title title page and verso of title page. Fine and clean. Pp. 182-228. [Entire volume: IV, 604 pp.].

First printing of Peano's correct and complete Existence Theorem. Peano first published the theorem in 1886 with an incorrect proof. In 1890 he published a new correct proof using successive approximations. The theorem is also known as Peano existence theorem, Peano theorem or Cauchy-Peano theorem.

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