Introductory remarks about the Volume II of the complete works of Gabrio Piola

In this Volume II of the translations into English of the works by Gabrio Piola, we begin from the true first work written by the young Gabrio before 1824, when he was less than 30 years old. The content of the work Sull’applicazione de’ principj della meccanica analitica del Lagrange ai principali problemi. Memoria di Gabrio Piola presentata al concorso del premio e coronata dall’I.R. Istituto di Scienze, ecc. nella solennità del giorno 4 ottobre 1824, Milano, Imp. Regia stamperia, 1825, submitted to respond to a research program proposed by the I.R. Istituto on 4th October 1822, is in some aspects very modern and astonishingly topical.