E170 -- Recherches sur les racines imaginaires des equations

(Research on imaginary roots of equations)

Summary:

According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with the title: “Theoremata de radicibus aequationum imaginariis” was presented to the Berlin Academy on November 10, 1746.

Publication:

Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 5, 1751, pp. 222-288
Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 6, pp. 78 - 150
A translation of selections of E170, along with some commentary, is published in D. J. Struik's A Source Book in Mathematics, 1200-1800 (1969, Harvard University Press), pp. 99-102.

Documents Available:

Original publication: E170
E170 can be viewed or downloaded from Digitalisierte Akademieschriften und Schriften zur Geschichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, which includes serial publications of the Prussian Academy of Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
English translation (Todd Doucet): E170

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