Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1879. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 13., 1878. 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. Very fine and clean. Pp. 561-65. [Entire volume: IV,
576 pp.].
First printing of Cayley's paper on groups; a subject to which he devoted a considerably amount of time. "Galois's use of substitution groups to decide the algebraic solvability of equations, and the continuation of his work by Abel and Cauchy, had provided a strong incentive to many other mathematicians to develop group theory further." (DSB)
The present volume contain several other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians.
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