E387 -- Vollstandige Anleitung zur Algebra

(Complete instruction in algebra, book 1)

Summary:

Publication:

Originally published as a book in 1770
Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 1
A handwritten Italian translation was found in the library of Fürsten B. Boncompagni.
Republished in Cours d’arithmètique raisonnèe, Brussels 1865, pp. 73-79, 102-240, 417-436; Cours complet d’algèbre, Brussels 1866, pp. 3-491 [E387C6a]

Documents Available:

Original Document (from a 1920 publication in the original German):
- Front matter and Table of Contents
- Abschrift 1, Von den verschiedenen Rechnungs- Arten mit einfachen Größen.
- Abschrift 2, Von den verschiedenen Rechnungs-Arten mit zusammengesetzten Größen.
- Abschrift 3, Von den Verhältnissen und Proportionen.
English Translation:
- title page, advertisements, table of contents, Memoir of the life of Euler
- Section I: Of the different methods of calculating simple quantities
- Section II: Of the different methods of calculating compound quantities
- Section III: Of ratios and proportions
- Section IV: Of algebraic equations and of the resolution of those equations
- Additions
Christopher Sangwin has also recently published an edited reprint of E387 (volume I of J. Hewlett's 1822 English translation of E387), available through an on-demand publisher:
An 1807 French translation is available via Archive.org.