Oxford University Press, August 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Chaotic dynamics (known popularly as chaos theory or, more simply, chaos) is among the most fascinating new fields in modern science, revolutionizing our understanding of order and pattern in nature. Symmetry, a traditional and highly developed area of mathematics.....
Back Bay Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Since Einstein's time, a "theory of everything" -- one coherent mathematical model that would encompass all the forces and particles of nature -- has become the Holy Grail of physics, and its pursuit has resulted in some of the.....
Vintage, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....