Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres Legendre Paperback 9781108001731 2e

Essai sur la Thorie des NombresAuthor(s): Adrien Marie Legendre\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108001731, 978-1108001731\nSynopsis\nAdrien-Marie Legendre [tel], one of the great French mathematicians active in the Revolutionary period, made important contributions to number theory, statistics, mathematical analysis and algebra. He taught at the cole Militaire, where he was a colleague of Laplace, and made his name with a paper on the trajectory of projectiles which won a prize of the Berlin Academy in 1782, and brought him to the attention of Lagrange. In 1794 he published Elments de gomtrie, which remained a textbook for over 100 years. The first edition of his Essai sur la thorie des nombres was published in 1798, and the much improved second edition, which is offered here, in 1808. In it Legendre had taken account of criticism by Gauss of the mathematical proofs in the first edition, thou.