Mémoire sur les rapports qui existent entre le calcul des résidus et le calcul des limites : et sur les avantages qu'offrent ces deux nouveaux calculs dans la résolution des équations algébriques ou transcendants

Name:

Cauchy, Augustin Louis, Baron, 1789-1857

Date:

1831

Description:

Mathematical work on the calculus of residues and the calculus of limits, related to complex function theory. Between the first and second gatherings of the manuscript (following p. 8), a mechanical reproduction of another manuscript by Cauchy, titled Sur un nouveau principe de mécanique, is bound in.

Language:

French

Provenance:

Formerly held in the library of the Jesuit residence in Laval, France (label, Bib. Dom. Laval. S.J., inside upper cover; stamp on title page, Domus Lavalliensis, p. 1).; Appears in Librairie Chamonal's May 1997 catalog, no. 51.; Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 52 (slip laid in manuscript).; Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.; Stanitz, John D., former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs221.html

Subject:

Calculus; Mathematics

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; Manuscripts, French; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

46 leaves : paper; 214 x 172 (177 x 135) mm bound to 215 x 177 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Catholic French mathematician who lived in Turin from 1831 to 1833 while living in exile after the fall of the House of Bourbon in 1830.; Title from title page (p. 1).; Collation: Paper, i + 46 + i; 1⁴ 2⁶ 3-11⁴; [1-2], 3-8, [i-ii, 1], 2-9, [10], 9-80, contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.; Layout: Text written in 28 long lines, with numerous equations.; Script: Written in cursive script, probably in the hand of Augustin Louis Cauchy.; Binding: Contemporary (mid-19th-century) marbled paper over boards; parchment spine with Cauchy written in ink.; Origin: Written in Turin, presented at the Academy of Sciences of Turin, 27 Nov. 1831 (title page, p. 1).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 221

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)