![BOLYAI, Farkas [Wolfgang] (1775-1856). Tentamen iuventutem studiosam in elementa matheseos ... introducendi, edited by Iulius König and Mauritius Réthy. Budapest: sumptibus Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 1897. 2 volumes in 3, 4° (290 x 222mm). Engraved portrait mounted on card, 83 plates, 11 folding (2 plates loose). Original roan-backed boards (slightly worn, a trifle soiled).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2008/CSK/2008_CSK_05442_0065_000(034741).jpg?w=1)
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BOLYAI, Farkas [Wolfgang] (1775-1856). Tentamen iuventutem studiosam in elementa matheseos ... introducendi, edited by Iulius König and Mauritius Réthy. Budapest: sumptibus Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 1897. 2 volumes in 3, 4° (290 x 222mm). Engraved portrait mounted on card, 83 plates, 11 folding (2 plates loose). Original roan-backed boards (slightly worn, a trifle soiled).
Second edition of Bolyai's Tentamen, 'an attempt at a rigorous and systematic foundation of geometry (Volume I) and of arithmetic, algebra and analysis (Volume II) ... the Tentamen is a most remarkable witness to the sharpness of his mind and to his perseverance. In many respects, he can be taken as a precursor of Gottlob Frege, Pasch, and Georg Cantor' (DSB). (3)
Second edition of Bolyai's Tentamen, 'an attempt at a rigorous and systematic foundation of geometry (Volume I) and of arithmetic, algebra and analysis (Volume II) ... the Tentamen is a most remarkable witness to the sharpness of his mind and to his perseverance. In many respects, he can be taken as a precursor of Gottlob Frege, Pasch, and Georg Cantor' (DSB). (3)
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