GALILEISCHE GRUPPEN UND QUADRATISCHE ALGEBREN MIT EINEM ANHANG: GRUNDRISS EINER GEOMETRISCHEN ALGEBRENLEHRE. 1939.

Bucuresti, Imprimeria Centrala, 1939

27 x 19 cm, 60pp. Original wrappers. The first edition of this mathematical treatise (written in German) in the form of an off-print from the “Bulletin Mathematique de la Societe Roumaine des Sciences” and written by Barbu (1895-1961), who was a significant and professional mathematician as well as poet (the aurthor of Joc Secund one of Romania’s most important between-the-wars avant garde publications).

Barbu’s true name was Barbilian – the name he wrote his professional works under as found here. This copy of this work has been dedicated by Barbu to a fellow mathematician and contains a large number of short annotations to the texts in blue ink which have been added by the author. While we are inadequate in mathematics to judge the content of this book, we understand that Barbu was important in this field and one reference notes that “as a mathematician, Barbilian authored 80 research papers and studies and the so-called Barbilian spaces in geometry were named after him.”. This copy is in very good + condition and is somewhat scarce even before the dedication.