Recherches sur le Mouvement de Rotation des Corps celestes (Studies on the rotational movement of celestial bodie). (And the same author:) Solution d'une Question curieuse qui ne paroit soumise a aucune Analyse. (Solutions of a curious question which. - [RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS]

"EULER, LEONHARD.

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(Berlin, aud et Spener, 1766). 4to. Without wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XV, pp. 265-309 a. 2 engraved plates., pp. 310-337. Both papers first edition. In the first paper Euler uses his method of pertubations on, or the "variation of the elements or parameters" on the movement of the planets. - The second pper is one of Euler's more famous papers and a good example of his work in an area called "recreational mathematics". It was the first mathematical paper on knight's tours (A knight's tour is a path that a knight chesspiece can follow to visit every square on the chessboard without revisiting any square). (Eneroth: E 308 a. E 309).

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• Title: Recherches sur le Mouvement de Rotation des Corps celestes (Studies on the rotational movement of celestial bodie). (And the same author:) Solution d'une Question curieuse qui ne paroit soumise a aucune Analyse. (Solutions of a curious question which. - [RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS]
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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