Georges Meslin (4 results)

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Non-périodique Une plaquette in-12 agrafée, 16 pages. ETAT : bon état. Non-périodique.

Bordas, 1984, 231 p., cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette, environ 34x26cm, bords de la jaquette frottés par endroits, bon état pour le reste.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Georges Meslin (1862-1918)"Sur une machine à résoudre les équations" ( On a machine to solve equations ) Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences (Paris), Vol. 130 (1900), pages 888-890. This is the full weekly issue extracted from a larger bound volume. Fair copy, only. [++] This is a short report in outline form by Meslin for the design of a mechanical device to solve numerical equations, to find the roots of algebraic equations. There is a mention of the Meslin proposal in Mathematics of Computation (1945), which also references another printing of his 1900 article in G. Meslin, Sur une machine à résoudre les équations, Journal de Physique, sér. 3, 9 (1900).  The machine consists of a balance carrying upon its beams at  varying distances from the point of support a series of solids of revolution, partially immersed in a liquid."--Nature, June 14, 1900, p 579. (Interesting to note here that two thermo papers by Meslin are reviewed by Einstein in his big year of 1905.).

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. 5 pp. Paris, Secrétariat de l'Association, 1908, in-8, 5 pp, Broché, couverture imprimée, Tiré à part, extrait des Comptes rendus de l'Association française pour l'avancement des sciences pour le Congrès de Clermont, en 1908. Étiquette en première de couverture.