GENOCCHI Angelo. Calcolo differenziale e principii di calcolo integrale pubblicato con aggiunte del Dr. Giuseppe Peano.Torino, Bocca, 1884
In-8vo, mm. 240x160; Brochure editoriale, dorso rinforzato; pp. XXXII, 336, [2]. Timbro di biblioteca estinta al frontespizio. Alcune fioriture, buon esemplare.
Rara prima edizione. Anche se apparso sotto il nome di Genocchi, di cui Peano era assistente, il volume fu per la massima parte opera dello stesso Peano: il testo contiene tra l'altro nella sua forma più compiuta la definizione di integrale, già da Peano accennata in precedenti testi. Kennedy: “This book is something of a curiosity in the history of mathematics, since the title page gives the author as Genocchi, not Peano … the title page states that it is “published with additions by Dr. Giuseppe Peano … Peano also included a new definition of the definite integral, using least upper bounds and greatest lower bounds of certain sums.” Encyclopædia Britannica: “[one of] the most important works on the development of the general theory of functions since the work of the French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy”.

8vo. 240x160 mm. Publisher’s paperback, re-backed spine. Pages XXXII, 336, [2]. Stamp of extinct library on title-page. Some foxing, good copy.
Rare first edition. Kennedy: “This book is something of a curiosity in the history of mathematics, since the title page gives the author as Genocchi, not Peano … the title page states that it is “published with additions by Dr. Giuseppe Peano … Peano also included a new definition of the definite integral, using least upper bounds and greatest lower bounds of certain sums.” Encyclopædia Britannica: “[one of] the most important works on the development of the general theory of functions since the work of the French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy”.