COTES, ROGER (1682-1716). Harmonia mensurarum, sive analysis & synthesis per rationum & angulorum mensuras promotae: accedunt alia opuscula mathematica� edidit et auxit Robertus Smith. Cambridge, 1722. FIRST EDITION. 4 to. Contmep. calf, rebacked with corners strengthened, spine with gilt-ruled compartments and gilt lea. label. (20), 249, (3), 125, (1, errata) pp. An engraved plate + numerous woodcut text diagrams. Engraved armorial bookplate of James Parker Smith (1854-1929) of Jordanhill. Teart in leaf 169/170 with old repair - no losses, light browning of a few signatures, but a crisp, very good copy. Robert Smith (1689-1768), Cotes' cousin, assistant and successor at Trinity College, Cambridge edited Cotes' mathematical papers on his death. The D.S.B. comments: "�then in great confusion, (they) were edited by Robert Smith and published as a book, 'Harmonia mensurarum' (1722). This work, which includes the 'Logometria' as its first part (Cotes' only life-time publication in 1714), gives an indication of Cotes's great ability. His style is somewhat obscure, with geometrical arguments preferred to analytical ones, and many results are quoted without explanation. What cannot be obscured is the original, systematic genius of the writer. This is shown most powerfully in his work on integration, in which long sequences of complicated functions are systematically integrated, and the results are applied to the solution of a great variety of problems." "Professor Morgan calls it 'the earliest work in which decided progress was made in the application of logarithms and of the properties of the circle to the calculus of fluents'. It is also the first complete treatise on the integral calculus�" (Babson/Newton, First Suppl., p. 29). S.M. Stigler, 'Hist. statistics', 1986, p. 16. Tomash Lib. C184.

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Titre: Harmonia mensurarum, sive analysis & synthesis per rationum & angulorum mensuras promotae: accedunt alia opuscula mathematica� edidit et auxit Robertus Smith
�diteur: Cambridge
Date de parution: 1722
Reliure: Hardcover
�dition: 1st Edition
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