‎HERMITE (C.)‎
‎QUATRE TIRES-A-PART (OFF-PRINT) de Charles HERMITE reliés en un volume : 1. SUR la théorie de la transformation des fonctions abéliennes. Tiré à part des Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des sciences, tome 40. P., 1855, 34pp. - 2. SUR quelques développements en série de fonction de plusieurs variables. Tiré à part des Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des sciences, tome 60. P., s.d., 26pp. - 3. SUR un nouveau développement en série des fonctions. Tiré à part des Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des sciences, tome 58. P., 1864, 8pp. - 4. SUR la théorie des formes quadratiques. Tiré à part des Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des sciences, tome 55. P., 1862, 8pp‎

‎P., 1855/1864,un volume in 4 relié en pleine toile noire (reliure postérieure), (quelques rousseurs)‎

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‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "In 1862, through Pasteur's influence, a position of Maître de conférence was created for Hermite at the Ecole Polytechnique. He occupied that position until 1869, when he took over J.M.C. Duhamel's chair as professor of analysis at the Ecole Polytechnique and at the Faculté des Sciences. His textbooks in analysis became classics, famous even outside France... Throughout his lifetime and for years afterward Hermite was an inspiring figure in mathematics. His work exerted a strong influence in his own time, but in the twentieth century a few historians, at most, will have cast a glance at it... He is remembered chiefly in connection with Hermitean forms, a complex generalization of quadratic forms and with Hermitean polynomials. His name also occurs in the solution of the fifth-degree equation by elliptic functions. He first proved the transcendence of e. If Hermite's work were scrutinized more closely, one might find more instances of Hermitean preludes to important discoveries by others...". (DSB VI p. 307)**2648/N4‎