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Publication of the Complete Works of Lagrange in the Digital Age

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This work is divided into three parts, the first of which will examine the nineteenth century edition of the Oeuvres de Lagrange published in Paris from 1867 to 1892 in 14 volumes, edited by the mathematicians Alfred Serret, for Volumes I–X, XIII, and, after Serret’s death, by Gaston Darboux for Volumes XI and XII. Volumes XIII and XIV, containing the correspondence, were edited by the historian and librarian, Ludovic Lalanne. The second part concerns the question of the manuscripts and correspondence not contained in the Oeuvres, while the third part takes stock of some editions currently being published, and presents some possibilities for the collection of the complete works of Lagrange.

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    A dozen letters addressed to Lalanne were found in the Lagrange fund of the library of the Institut de France. The economic arrangements between the editor and the public institutions and the roles of the editors may be reconstructed by means of the dossier: Paris, Archives nationales, F/17/3247.

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    The digital library includes about four hundred works of Italian mathematicians, rare or not easily accessible, printed from the Renaissance to the beginning of the twentieth century.

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    Something similar was carried out for the works of Lavoisier: http://www.lavoisier.cnrs.fr/index.html

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    Plato, The Republic, VII, 526–527 (translated by H.D.P. Lee made from the Oxford text, Adam’s edition, The Republic of Plato; C.U.P. 1926, The Penguin Classics).

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    Luigi Pepe

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Maria Teresa Borgato

  2. Institute of Mathematics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Erwin Neuenschwander

  3. Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris, Rive Gauche, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

    Irène Passeron

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Pepe, L. (2018). Publication of the Complete Works of Lagrange in the Digital Age. In: Borgato, M., Neuenschwander, E., Passeron, I. (eds) Mathematical Correspondences and Critical Editions. Trends in the History of Science. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73577-1_7

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