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Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813), one of the notable French mathematicians of the Revolutionary period, is remembered for his work in the fields of analysis, number theory and mechanics. Like Laplace and Legendre, Lagrange was assisted by d'Alembert, and it was on the recommendation of the latter and the urging of Frederick the Great himself that Lagrange succeeded Euler as the director of mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. The two-volume M canique analytique was first published in 1788; the edition presented here is that of 1811-15, revised by the author before his death. In this work, claimed to be the most important on classical mechanics since Newton, Lagrange developed the law of virtual work, from which single principle the whole of solid and fluid mechanics can be derived.
Author: Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/20/2009
Pages: 444
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781108001755
ISBN10: 1108001750
BISAC Categories:
- Mathematics | History & Philosophy
Author: Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/20/2009
Pages: 444
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781108001755
ISBN10: 1108001750
BISAC Categories:
- Mathematics | History & Philosophy
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