Application Analysis Discovery Local Theorems by Babbage Charles (4 results)

Condition: Very good. Extract from Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. IX, pp. 337-352. Disbound.

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pp. 337 - 352. 1 plate. 4to. Wrapper, foxed, with front label. Drop head title. From Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vol 9.

Edinburgh, William & Charles Tait / London, Longman, etc, 1823. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from "Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh" 9, pt. 1 (1821). Leaves reinforced in margin. Pp. (6), 153-177, 337-352. First Edition of Babbage's only paper on probability. "In this paper [Babbage's] concern was primarily mathematical, and we will find considerable skill in the manipulation of functions and polynomials. [.] The major interest in this particular paper [is] the ingenious use of algebra to solve probability problems, especially the devices using the coefficients of polynomials and the roots of unity" (Dubbey, The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage, pp. 141-42).Erwin Tomash B22.