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St. Petersburg, Akademyi Nauk, 1896. 4to (28.0 x 19.5 cm). 199 pp.; seven folded plates with illustrations numbered I-XI, 1-5. Original printed wrappers. = Written by the Russian mathematician Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave (1863-1939). "[He] was educated at the University of St Petersburg where he studied under Chebyshev and his pupils Korkin, Zolotarev and Markov. Grave began research while a student, graduating with his doctorate in 1896. He had obtained his master's degree in 1889 and, in that year, began teaching at the University of St Petersburg . His doctorate was on map projections, . a topic proposed by Korkin, the degree being awarded in 1896. The work, on equal area plane projections of the sphere, built on ideas of Euler, Joseph Louis Lagrange and Chebyshev [This paper]. Grave became professor at Kharkov in 1897 and, from 1902, he was appointed professor at the University of Kyiv, where he remained for the rest of his life. Grave is considered as the founder of the Kyiv school of algebra which was to become the centre for algebra in Russia (cf. Wikipedia). Uncut. Spine taped. Dutch stamp and Dutch titel translation on the title page. Wrapper edges chipped and creased. Internally a very good copy.