Book Sales, Inc., September 2009. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Beginning with zero itself and concluding with the last great unsolved problem, this book introduces the origins of mathematics from Egyptian fractions to Roman numerals; explains the near mystical significance of pi and primes.....
The Folio Society, 2012. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 325 pages. This edition follows the text of the 2008 paperback edition by Quercus Publishing. First Folio Society edition (first printing). A previous owners bookplate to the half-title pages with permanent marker used to cover name offsetting to the front free endpaper.....
Penguin Books, May 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . . --Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn.....
Harper Perennial, May 2019. Trade Paperback. How precise is this book? Winchester explores the Age of Precision dating back to avid-supporter Thomas Jefferson who ushered into the U.S. the concept of Standardization. A remarkable journey of how we got where we are and why so much of the Natural World.....
Pearson, 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wappers (paperback). This volume takes a hands-on approach to the introduction of basic statistical methods, using a highly interactive method. Readers are taught to ask "why" and think like a statistician to find the logical solution. With its strong emphasis on data analysis.....
Clarendon Press, 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 334 pages. 9 by 12-1/4 inches. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). Very good in wappers (paperback). Stain (coffee?) on cover and first few pages; creases to rear cover. Mathematics was integral to Mesopotamian scribal culture: indeed, writing was invented towards the.....
Z Subwencji Funduszu Kultury Narodowej, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 254 pages. The first monograph of the general theory of operations, one of the fundamental parts of functional calculus. Text in French. The major work by the influential mathematician who had many mathematical concepts named after him. First edition (first printing).....
Birkhauser Verlag Ag, 1983. Hardcover. 254 pages. Near fine hardcover (previous owner's name stamped on edges). No dust jacket, as issued. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining.
American Mathematical Society, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This volume contains the proceedings of the International Workshop on Banach Space Theory, held at the Universidad de Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela in January 1992. These refereed papers contain the newest results in Banach space theory, real or.....
Touchstone, July 1986. Trade Paperback. From one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics. Men of Mathematics provides a rich account of major mathematical milestones, from the geometry of the Greeks.....
Dover Publications, April 2008. Trade Paperback. This accessible and self-contained treatment provides even readers previously unacquainted with parabolic and elliptic equations with sufficient background to understand research literature. Author Avner Friedman -- Director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University -- offers a systematic and thorough approach.....
Dover Publications, November 2008. Trade Paperback. This three-part treatment focuses on elliptic and evolution equations. Largely self-contained, this volume concludes with a series of independent topics related to the methods and results of preceding sections and introduces advanced topics for further study. Geared toward graduate and postgraduate students, it also.....
Schwickertschen Verlage and E. B. Schwickert, 1803-1836. First Edition. Hardcover. A rare complete set of this early 19th century German dictionary of pure mathematics, published in five volumes (in six books) and a two-volume supplement (Supplemente zu G. S. Kluegel's Woorterbuche der reinen Mathematik). Volumes 4 and 5 were co-written.....
Verlag von Veit & Comp. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 550 pages. A dense study of the Fredholm determinant, a complex function to generalize the determinant of a matrix. The work is perhaps most notable for introducing modern matrix notation (also credited to Cuthbert Cullis in 1913). See Cajoni, History of.....
John Wiley & Sons, 1989. Hardcover. 768 pages. Textbook, part of the Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Later printing. A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. This text/reference provides a broad survey of aspects of model-building and statistical inference. Presents an accessible synthesis of current theoretical literature, requiring.....
Springer-Verlag, 1972. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Paper wrappers. Proceedings of a conference. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
D. Reidel Pub. Co., published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 319 pages. First edition. Spine faded from blue to brown; previous owner's name stamped inside and on page edges, otherwise a very good, clean copy in a like jacket. Mathematical physics has become, in.....