Sur une Question de Maximis et Minimis. - [MAUPERTUIS'S FIRST PAPER]

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Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1728. 4to. In a nice contemporary full mottled calf binding with five rasied bands and rchly gilt spines. Gilt borders on covers. In "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Ann�e M. DCCXXVI", entire volume offered. Small tear to upper part of spine and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A fine copy. Pp. 84-94. [entire volume: (8), 84, 341, (2) pp + 16 folded plates. First appearance of Maupertuis's first mathematical paper, a solution to the problem maxima and minima."His early paper represent the the possibilities opened up by the calculus. [The present paper] is as much an exploration of the power of the method to discover unexpected results as it is the solution to a specific problem. The problem is a simple one from plane geometry: to fine trapezoids of greatest and least area, given certain conditions for the length of the sides." (Terrall, The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis). Seller Inventory # 58915

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