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Meditationes Algebricae - WARING (Eduardo) MEDITATIONES Algebricæ . Editio Tertia recensita et aucta. Cantabrigiæ: Typis Academicis excudebat J. Archdeacon, 1782. [2], xliv, 390, [18] pp., 4 ff. desdobráveis com fórmulas matemáticas; 280 mm. Third edition, revised and enlarged , of this work that brings together, in Latin, the most mature core of the work of Edward Waring (1734–1798), a celebrated professor at Cambridge. The volume is composed of “meditations” and propositions that cover central problems of algebra from the late 1700s—from the theory of equations and the manipulation of relations between roots (with special attention to symmetric functions ) to transformation and resolution methods aimed at obtaining more tractable forms of calculation and proof. In several passages, statements and notes that would become classics in the history of number theory also appear, notably concerning the representation of integers by sums of powers (the so-called “Waring problem”). Rare. ! Please note that this translated text was generated by Google. !