{"product_id":"carnot-l-reflections-on-the-metaphysics-of-the-infinitesimal-calculus-razmyshleniia-o-metafizike-ischisleniia-beskonechno-malykh-1933-first-edition-in-russian","title":"Carnot, L. Reflections on the Metaphysics of the Infinitesimal Calculus (Razmyshleniia o metafizike ischisleniia beskonechno-malykh). 1933. First edition in Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eКарно, Лазарь. Размышления о метафизике исчисления бесконечно-малых. Первое издание \/ перевод Н. М. Соловьева ; редакция и вступительная статья А. П. Юшкевича ; очерк жизни Л. Карно - М. Э. Подгорного ; под общей редакцией А. А. Агола, С. И. Вавилова, М. Я. Выгодского, Б. М. Гессена, М. Л. Левина, А. А. Максимова, А. А. Михайлова, И. П. Розена и А. Я. Хинчина.\u003cbr\u003eСерия: Классики естествознания.\u003cbr\u003eМосква - Ленинград : Государственное технико-теоретическое издательство (ГТТИ), 1933. 352 с., с портретом.\u003cbr\u003eТвёрдый издательский переплёт, уменьшенный формат. Тираж 3 000 экз.\u003cbr\u003eНа титульном листе - владельческая подпись цветными чернилами.\u003cbr\u003eПереплёт хороший: потёртости по уголкам, тиснение заглавия местами стёрлось. Блок хороший: полный, крепкий.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eCarnot, Lazare. Reflections on the Metaphysics of the Infinitesimal Calculus. First edition \/ translated by N. M. Solovyov ; edited, with an introductory essay, by A. P. Yushkevich ; biographical essay by M. E. Podgorny ; general editorship of A. A. Agol, S. I. Vavilov, M. Ya. Vygodsky, B. M. Hessen, M. L. Levin, A. A. Maximov, A. A. Mikhailov, I. P. Rozen, and A. Ya. Khinchin.\u003cbr\u003eSeries: Classics of Natural Science.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow - Leningrad: State Technical-Theoretical Publishing House (GTTI), 1933. 352 pp., with a portrait frontispiece.\u003cbr\u003eHardcover publisher's binding, reduced format. Print run of 3,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eTitle page bearing a previous owner's signature in colored ink.\u003cbr\u003eBoards good: wear at corners, gilt title partially rubbed. Text block good: complete and firm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (1753-1823), military engineer, mathematician, and one of the principal organizational figures of the French Revolution, is remembered above all as the \"Organizer of Victory,\" architect of the levée en masse and the reorganization of the revolutionary armies that repelled the invading coalition forces of 1793-94. Alongside this political and military career, Carnot pursued an independent line of inquiry into the foundations of the infinitesimal calculus, publishing his \"Réflexions sur la métaphysique du calcul infinitésimal\" in 1797, a work seeking to place Newton's and Leibniz's calculus on secure logical footing without recourse to actual infinitesimals, later engaged with by Bolzano, Cauchy, and subsequent historians of mathematical rigor. This 1933 edition, issued in the prestigious series \"Classics of Natural Science\" from the State Technical-Theoretical Publishing House, presents the first Russian translation of Carnot's treatise, rendered by N. M. Solovyov with an extensive introductory study by the historian of mathematics A. P. Yushkevich, together with a substantial biographical essay by M. E. Podgorny on Carnot's role as organizer of the Revolution's military victories. A second, slightly abridged edition followed only in 1936 from ONTI in a larger run of 5,000, making the present first edition, at 3,000 copies, the scarcer and bibliographically primary printing. The volume was prepared under the general editorship of a distinguished board including the physicist S. I. Vavilov, later president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the probabilist A. Ya. Khinchin; several contributors to the series, including B. M. Hessen and A. A. Agol, would fall victim to the Stalinist purges within a few years of publication, lending the volume additional interest as an artifact of Soviet scientific publishing in the early 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44620554928170,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_0102.jpg?v=1785153891","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/carnot-l-reflections-on-the-metaphysics-of-the-infinitesimal-calculus-razmyshleniia-o-metafizike-ischisleniia-beskonechno-malykh-1933-first-edition-in-russian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}