POINCARÉ, H.

Sur une Forme nouvelle des Équations du Probleme des trois Corps (+) Sur les rapports de l'analyse pure et de la physique mathématique.

Berlin, Uppsala & Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1897. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Acta Mathematica", Vol, 21, 1897. Entire volume offered. Stamps to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. pp. 83-97; Pp. 331-341.[Entire volume: (6), 376 pp + 4 plates].

First printing of this paper in which Poincaré arrives at a new theorem about canonical transformation, and in his later "Methodes Nouvelles", he proved this theorem using a variiational principle of mechanics, known today as the Hamilton principle.
Also included is the first printing of Poincaré's principal address at the first International Congress of Mathematicians held in Zürich in 1897.

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