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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). 'Condensation of Determinants, being a new and brief method for computing their arithmetical value', in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, XV. London: Taylor and Francis [for the Royal Society], 1867, pp. 150-155.
8° (215 x 135mm). Contemporary cloth-backed boards, red morocco label on spine (spine ends chipped, spine head torn, corners rubbed, front joint starting). Provenance: Society of Arts, London (stamp).
FIRST EDITION of one of Dodgson's main contributions to linear algebra: his discovery of a process for evaluating arithmetical determinants by condensation, also known as the method of contractants. The paper was read before the Royal Society 17 May 1866. Encouraged by its success Dodgson later published his Elementary Treatise on Determinants (see the following lot). Newspapers of the day reported that Queen Victoria had enjoyed reading Alice so much that she had expressed a desire to receive his next work, and that Dodgson presented her a copy of 'Condensation of Determinants'. Dodgson contradicts this 'silly story' in his preface to the second edition of Symbolic Logic. Cf. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 52 (offprint issue).
8° (215 x 135mm). Contemporary cloth-backed boards, red morocco label on spine (spine ends chipped, spine head torn, corners rubbed, front joint starting). Provenance: Society of Arts, London (stamp).
FIRST EDITION of one of Dodgson's main contributions to linear algebra: his discovery of a process for evaluating arithmetical determinants by condensation, also known as the method of contractants. The paper was read before the Royal Society 17 May 1866. Encouraged by its success Dodgson later published his Elementary Treatise on Determinants (see the following lot). Newspapers of the day reported that Queen Victoria had enjoyed reading Alice so much that she had expressed a desire to receive his next work, and that Dodgson presented her a copy of 'Condensation of Determinants'. Dodgson contradicts this 'silly story' in his preface to the second edition of Symbolic Logic. Cf. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 52 (offprint issue).
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