First Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus, Or, the Doctrines of Fluxions: Intended as an Introduction to the Physico-mathematical Sciences |
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| Title | First Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus, Or, the Doctrines of Fluxions: Intended as an Introduction to the Physico-mathematical Sciences |
| Author | Etienne Bézout |
| Contributors | Hilliard and Metcalf, University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Cummings, Hilliard & Company |
| Publisher | Hilliard and Metcalf at the University Press, 1824 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 195 pages |
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