Hagen, Johann G.

Synopsis der Hoeheren Mathematik: Arithmetische und algebraische analyse; geometrie der algebraischen gebilde, differential-und integralrechnung [Summary on higher mathematics: an analysis of arthmetic and algebra, geometry...differential integral calculus]

Berlin: Felix L. Dames, 1891; 1894; 1900-1905. First edition; 3 volumes, 4to, pp. [7], viii, 398, [2]; [7], 416; vi, 471, [1]; contemporary green quarter-cloth over marbled boards, title and author stamped in gilt on the spine; ex-James J. Hill Library, with stamps on title pages and withdrawn stamps. Hagen was a German mathematician who studied applied mathematics and astronomy throughout his lifetime. He worked in Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, Georgetown, Washington D.C., and was in charge of the Vatican Observatory for the last twenty-five years of his life ("Father Johann Georg Hagen", Smithsonian Institution Archives). An important work in applied mathematics, containing the first publication of the Rothe-Hagen Identity ("Johann Georg Hagen", Wikipedia). Item #54256

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