‎"RIEMANN, B. (BERNHARD).‎
‎Zur Theorie der Nobili'schen Farbenringe.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1855. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. A few scratches to spine. Small stamps to verso of titlepages and verso of plates. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Bd. 95. (Entire volume offered). (2),X,628 pp. and 6 engraved plates, partly folded. Riemann's paper: pp. 130-139. Clean and fine.‎

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‎First appearance of an importent paper in mathematical physics, dealing with the foudations of electricity. Here Riemann uses semiconvergent (asymptotic) series, an approach which motivated the subsequent works of Weber and Henkel.‎