‎JORDAN (C.)‎
‎Traité des substitutions et des équations algébriquess‎

‎P., Blanchard, 1957; un volume in 4, broché, couverture imprimée, 18pp., 666pp.‎

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‎Nouveau tirage ---- "JORDAN's MONIMENTAL WORK Traité des substitutions et des équations algébriques, published in 1870 is a masterpiece of mathematical architecture. The beauty of the edifice erected by Jordan is admirable". (Van der Waerden A history of algebra p. 117) ---- "In 1870, Jordan gathered all his results on permutation groups for the previous ten years in a huge volume, Traité des substitutions, which for thirty years was to remain the bible of all specialists in group theory. His fame had spread beyond France, and foreign students were eager to attend his lectures ; in particular Felix Klein and Sophus Lie came to Paris in 1870 to study with Jordan, who at that time was developing his researches in an entirely new direction : the determination of all groups of movements in three-dimensional space". (DSB VII 167/169)‎