Moscou, 1936; un volume in 8, cartonnage éditeur, 197pp.
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "Tchebychev's importance in the history of science consists not only in his discoveries but also in his founding of a great scientific school. It is sometimes called the Tchebychev school, but more frequently the Petersburg school. The Petersburg mathematical school owes its existence partly to the activity of Tchebychev's elder contemporaries, such as Bunyakovski and Ostrograski ; nevertheless, it was Chebyschev who founded the school, directed and inspired it for many years and influenced the tend of mathematics teaching at Petersburg university... Tchebychev's general approach to mathematics quite naturally resulted in his aspiration toward the effective solution of problems and the discovery of algorithms giving either an exact numerical answer o, if this proved impossible, an approximation ready for scientific and practical applications. He interpreted the strictness of the theory in the event of approximate evaluations as a possibility of precise definition of limits not trespassed by the error of approximation...". (DSB III pp. 222/232). (N° 5)**4962/CART.RUSS