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27x22cm, (23) pages., Without wrappers. Caption title. Pagination runs [129]-152. Later cloth-tape to spine. Unopened. Foxed. Good. An extract from 'Mémoire de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, Sciences mathématiques, physiques et naturelles', Tome 1. ["Ostrogradsky was a Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry., a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.,.He worked mainly in the mathematical fields of calculus of variations, integration of algebraic functions, number theory, algebra, geometry, probability theory and in the fields of applied mathematics, mathematical physics and classical mechanics. In the latter, his key contributions are in the motion of an elastic body and the development of methods for integration of the equations of dynamics and fluid power, following up on the works of Euler, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Siméon Denis Poisson and Augustin Louis Cauchy. ., -wikipedia]. Seller Inventory # 031836
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