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St.-Pétersbourg, l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1905. Large 4to (33.5 x 25.1 cm), 32 pp. Printed wrappers. = Important paper by Russian mathematician Alexandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1857-1918). "He created the modern theory of the stability of a dynamic system" (Wikipedia). "At the beginning of 1901 he was elected an associate member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and at the end of that year he became an academian in applied mathematics. In St. Petersburg, Lyapunov devoted himself completely to scientific work. He returned to the problem that Chebyshev had placed before him [in 1882] and, in an extensive series of papers which continued until his death, developed the theory of figures of equilibrium of rotating heavy liquids and of the stability of these figures" (DSB). Published by the Academy, being an offprint of the Mémoires, Volume 17(3). Uncut. Wrapper edges a bit uneven, with a few short tears; two old stamps on the front wrapper, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Rare. DSB VIII, p. 560.