De l’origine et des limites de la correspondance entre l’algèbre et la géométrie.

Edition originale et unique édition ancienne. « Contains the first proof of the Criticality Theorem of his friend Bienaymé in the theory of branching processes, concludes the series of his strictly mathematical publications, and leads on to his great philosophical works published between 1851 and 1875” (C.C. Heyde,E. Seneta, ‘Statisticians of the Centuries’, NY, Springer, 2001, p. 154). (T. Martin, ‘Bibliographie cournotienne’, p. 18).