Elemens d'algebre de Mr Saunderson (v.1-2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Elemens d'algebre de Mr Saunderson (v.1-2)
Other titles: Elements of algebra
Classmark: Anglo-French 5 1756/SAU
Creator(s): Saunderson, Nicholas (1682-1739)
Additional creator(s): Colson, John (1680-1760) (Other); Saunderson, John (Other); Joncourt, Elias de (1697?-1765) (Other); Moivre, Abraham de (1667-1754) (Other)
Related people: Colson, John; Saunderson, John; Joncourt, Elias de; Moivre, Abraham de
Publisher: Chez Arkstée et Merkus
Publication city: A Amsterdam et à Leipzig
Date(s): 1756
Language: French
Size and medium: 2 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/260910
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016744219705181
Description
The English edition, published 1740, was edited by the author's son, John Saunderson.
"Memoires concernant la vie et le caractere du docteur Saunderson": v. 1, p. [xiii]-xxviii.
"L'arithmetique palpable du docteur Saunderson, dechifer'ee [par John Colson]" v. l, p. [xxix]-xxxiv.
"Solution de deux problemes [au sujet des quantités proportionnelles] par Mr. Abraham de Moivre": v. 1, p. 260-264.
"Appendice. Lettre du professeur Saunderson à Mr. de Moivre. Méthode de Mr. de Moivre pour l'extraction de la racine cubique ou de telle autre racine d'un binôme impossible, comme a + [square root of] -b; avec une application de cette méthode à l'extraction d'une racine quelconque de quelque puissance donnée dudit binôme": v.2, p. 398-403.
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