The manuscript of Abel's Parisian memoir found in its entirety
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The manuscript of Abel's Parisian memoir found in its entirety
zbMATH Open document ID: 0996.01008
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 2002-07-08T00:00:00Z
review text: Abel presented his materpiece on transcendental functions to the Académie des Sciences in 1826; and it was rushed into print in 1840 under the control of G. Libri, as the author had been dead for more than a decade. The manuscript joined the mountain of disasters consequent upon Libri's thieving and the subsequent enquiry of sales by Libri himself. Viggo Brun found some of it in 1952, in the Biblioteca Moreniana in Florence; a few years later A. Procissi found a bit more in another collection in this library; and now the authoress records both her rediscovery of this part and also her finding of the missing pages, in yet another holding in the library! A typical post-Libri story.
reviewed by: Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
zbMATH DE Number: 1764726
zbMATH Keywords: Abel
zbMATH Keywords: Libri
author: A. Del Centina
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: hmat.2001.2333
OpenAlex ID: W2070075672
cites work: Niels Henrik Abel. Neue biographische Funde.
cites work: Q5781756
cites work: Q3250566
cites work: Q4486424
DOI: 10.1006/HMAT.2001.2333
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