CLAIRAUT, (ALEXIS-CLAUDE)

Sur quelques Questions de Maximis et Minimis.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733". Pp. 186-194. Textfigs. Clean and fine.

First appearanceof an importent paper on the Calculus.

"Clairaut’s "Sur quelques questions de maximis et minimis" (1733) was noteworthy in the history of the calculus of variations. It was written, as were all his similar works, in the style of the Bernoulli brothers, by likening the infinitesimal arc of the curve of three elementary rectilinear segments."(DSB).

Order-nr.: 46582