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Cambridge University Press, 2009-07-20. 1. Paperback. Used:Good.

Cambridge University Press. paperback. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Breslau: Henry Hall, 1883.. later edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Nouvelle edition 1883 Breslau edited by Guillaume Koebner. An excellent copy of the reprinted 1822 seminal work on the mathematics of heat. Published on large format paper 26 x 21 cms 4to. Bound in modern brown cloth, internally fine and complete with the 2 plates at rear.

Breslau: Henry Hall. Good with no dust jacket. 1883. Leather. B&W Illustrations; Herein is the first mathematical study of heat diffusion, originally presented as a paper to the Academie des Sciences in 1807. Based his reasoning on Newton's law of cooling, namely, that the flow of heat between two adjacent molecules is proportional to the extremely small difference of their temperatures. Here were three important contributions in this work, one purely mathematical, two essentially physical. In mathematics, Fourier claimed that any function of a variable, whether continuous or discontinuous, can be expanded in a series of sines of multiples of the variable. Though this result is not correct without additional conditions, Fourier's observation that some discontinuous functions are the sum of infinite series was a breakthrough. Fourier was famous for being the first to recognize and describe the greenhouse effect causing global warming in 1824-1827, This is the 1822 edition… Read More

1822. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1822. 4to. Contemporary half calf with gilt spine. Old paper label to top of spine. Two old stamps to foot of title-page and old inscription to top of title-page. Half-title browned, otherwise just a bit of mild scattered brownspotting. A mild damp stain to lower blank margin of ab. 20 leaves, far from affecting text. A nice copy. Plates with light brownspotting. (4), XII, 639 pp. + 2 plates. First edition of Fourier's seminal main work, an epochal achievement in the history of science, being "the first outstanding publication on the conduction of heat" (Milestones of Science) and the "source of all modern methods in mathematical physics involving the integration of partial differential equations in problems where boundary values are fixed." (Cajori). "Fourier demonstrated that problems in mathematical physics can be solved for any complex condition when one knows how to solve the simple periodic initial condition." (Milestones of Science). The great achievements that… Read More