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 / par M. Augustin Cauchy, membre de l'Institut de France.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
46 leaves : paper ; 214 x 172 (177 x 135) mm bound to 215 x 177 mm - Production:
- Turin, 1831.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38s8fDigital facsimile for download (OPenn)
https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs221.html - Status/Location:
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- Other Title:
- Sur un nouveau principe de mécanique.
- Subjects:
- Calculus.
Mathematics. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Digital. - Language:
- French.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
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). - Local notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Penn 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. - Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 51 (LJS 221).
- Cited as:
- LJS 221
- Contributor:
- Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) - OCLC:
- 824509547
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
