Seven Volumes; Four Volumes of His "Collection de Monographies sur la Theorie des Fonctions" and Three Volumes of His "Nouvelle Lecons sur las Theorie des Fonctions.".

BOREL, Emile

Published by Gauthier-Villars 1900-1922, Paris, 1900

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The first four titles are as follows;Leçons sur la Théorie de la Croissance. Paris, 1910. First edition.Leçons sur les Fonctions Monogénes Uniformes d'une Variable Complexe. Paris, 1917. First edition.Leçons sur les Fonctions Entières. Paris, 1921. Second edition, revised and enlarged by M. G. Maliron.Méthodes et Problèmes de Théorie des Fonctions. Paris 1922. First edition.All complete. All but one are bound in publisher's quarter black cloth over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering. The 1917 title is bound to style and with original front wrapper bound in. All in very good condition.The second three titles are as follows:Leçons sur les Fonctions Entières. Paris, 1900. First edition.Leçons sur les Séries à Termes Positifs. Paris, 1902. First edition.Leçons sur les Fonctions Méromorphes. Paris, 1903. First edition.The first title is in original printed blue wrappers (light wear to head of spine) and the other two have publisher's bindings as above. All in very good condition.A soupcon of Emile Borel who published more than 40 titles during his life. Emile Borel was a gifted mathematician who contributed very significantly to Probability Theory, Measure Theory, and Function Theory. He was most lauded for his work in Probability Theory but his other contributions were almost equally significant. All of these titles concern his Function Theory. "Borel discovered the elementary proof of Picard?s theorem (see Charles-Émile Picard). This sensational accomplishment set the stage for his formulation of a theory of entire functions and the distribution of their values, a topic that dominated the theory of complex functions for the next 30 years. Although Borel was not the first to define a conventional sum of a v series (a series of numbers that does not approach a certain number; see infinite series), he was the first to conceive and develop a systematic theory of such series (1899). In 1909 he was appointed to the chair of theory of functions created for him at the Sorbonne. He completed a series of papers on game theory (1921?27) and became the first to define games of strategy" (EB). He was also a very highly decorated soldier.

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• Title: Seven Volumes; Four Volumes of His "Collection de Monographies sur la Theorie des Fonctions" and Three Volumes of His "Nouvelle Lecons sur las Theorie des Fonctions.".
• Publisher: Gauthier-Villars 1900-1922, Paris
• Publication Date: 1900