CAPELLI'S IDENTITY

CAPELLI, ALFREDO.

Ueber die Zurückführung der Cayley'schen Operation O auf gewöhnliche Polar-Operationen.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1887. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 29, 1887. 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. 331-338. [Entire volume: IV, 582 pp.].

First printing of Capelli's Identity: an analogue of the formula det(AB) = det(A) det(B), for certain matrices with noncommuting entries, related to the representation theory of the Lie algebra.

Order-nr.: 47181