Beschreibung:

LAGRANGE, Joseph Louis. Thorie des fonctions analytiques contenant les principes du calcul diffrentiel, dgags de toute considration d'infinement petits ou d'vanouissans, de limites ou de fluxions ... , Paris: l'Imprimerie de la Rpublique, an V [1797]. 4, half title (lacking the final blank, occasional lightly spotting), later calf-backed boards. FIRST EDITION, variant B (containing 277 pages). Lagrange attempted to show that power series expansions are sufficient to provide differential calculus with a solid foundation. It dominated the study of the functions of a complex variable throughout the nineteenth century. Norman 1258.