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A THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC ... Enlarged, and adapted to the use of Young Traders, Bankers, &c. by F. Payrard

By: Bezout, Etienne

Price: $64.94

Publisher: New York, Samuel S. Wood: 1825

Seller ID: 39056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

236 pages; Translated from the French, improved and adapted to the currency of the United States by Noble Heath. Quarter black leather over grey-green boards. Old pencil notes on endpapers, former owner's names, light rubbing. Mathematician Etienne Bezout (1739-1783) spent many years as a teacher and examiner of young naval officers; his published works include practical handbooks on the elementary mechanics and mathematics necessary for ballistics or navigation as well as more theoretical works of pure algebra and the theory of equations. This work was adapted by Peyrard for the use of stoc...
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ON THE CALCULATION OF THE CORRELATION between a Single Element of a Composite and the Remainder of the Composite

By: Conrad, Herbert S

Price: $4.94

Publisher: Journal of Educational Psychology: 1935

Seller ID: 36939

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Very Good

5 pages; Clean and secure in original self wrappers.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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LE CALCUL ANALOGIQUE PAR COURANTS CONTINUS

By: Danloux-Dumesnils, M

Price: $24.94

Publisher: Paris, Dunod: 1958

Seller ID: 38856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

An interesting publication on early French computers and electronic computations. Le Computeur Djinn, Le Computeur OME-P2, La Computeur OME-L2, Calculating Machines, etc. Contents, Chapitres : Avant-propos, Table, xiv, Texte, 257 pages - Le calcul mcanique (Mthodes - Calcul lectrique analogique) - Principes du computage lectrique (Oprateurs lmentaires - Circuit de calcul) - Organes et prcision du computeur (L'amplificateur - La tension fonctionnelle - Les lments passifs - L'instrument de mesure et d'enregistrement) - Rsolution des systmes algbriques linaires - Systmes diffrentiels linaires...
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The Foundations of Arithmetic Original German Text Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik With English Translation

By: Frege, Gottlob ; J. L. Austin (translator) ; [Susan Sontag's copy]

Price: $29.94

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library: 1953

Seller ID: 42670

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

119 pages; FFEP bears Susan Sontag's ownership signature and "Jan. 1959 / Cambridge, Mass." ; also her manuscript annotations throughout text. Damp rippling to binding and dustjacket along lower edge, not affecting text.
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Translations From the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege

By: Frege, Gottlob ; J. L. Austin (translator) ; [Susan Sontag's copy]

Price: $34.94

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library: 1952

Seller ID: 42671

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

244 pages; FFEP bears Susan Sontag's ownership signature and "1956 / Cambridge" ; also her manuscript annotations scattered through the text. Dustjacket chipped and torn at spine ends with a stain at lower corner.
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Pythagoras - A Life

By: Gorman, Peter

Price: $34.95

Publisher: London, Routledge Kegan & Paul: 1979

Seller ID: 42678

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Contents clean and secure in original binding in price-clipped dustjacket; dj has damp mark at spine (now in mylar cover).
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GREEK ASTRONOMY

By: Heath, Sir Thomas L. ; Ernest Barker (editor)

Price: $44.95

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent: 1932

Seller ID: 42677

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

The Library of Greek Thought; lvii, (1), 192 pages; Clean and secure in original cloth binding in dustjacket with some edgewear and two old internal repairs with clear tape.
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DIOPHANTUS OF ALEXANDRIA a study in the history of Greek algebra : with a supplement containing an account of Fermat's theorems and problems connected with Diophantine analysis and some solutions of Diophantine problems by Euler

By: Heath, Sir Thomas Little ; Leonhard Euler

Price: $134.95

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1910

Seller ID: 42681

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

vi, (2), 387 pages; Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine, light toning to endpapers. Diophantus of Alexandria, sometimes called "the father of algebra", was an Alexandrian mathematician and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica. These texts deal with solving algebraic equations, many of which are now lost. In studying Arithmetica, Pierre de Fermat concluded that a certain equation considered by Diophantus had no solutions, and noted without elaboration that he had found "a truly marvelous proof of this proposition," now referred to as Ferm...
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Sammlung von Beispielen, Formeln und Aufgaben aus der Buchstabenrechnung und Algebra Drittes verbesserte und vermehrte Ausgabe

By: Hirsch, Meier

Price: $44.94

Publisher: Berlin, Duncker und Humblot: 1816

Seller ID: 39817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

iv, 324 pages; Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, green paper label on spine. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding, text tight and complete, with light scattered flecks of foxing scattered. This algebra textbook was first published in Berlin by Froehlich in 1804, and this was followed by a second edition in 1811 (Berlin: Braunes). This third edition from 1816 is described in OCLC Number: 257545932 (9 locations, none in the USA). Pages 321-4 are publisher's ads for other mathematical texts; this may explain why the OCLC collation states VIII & 320 pp. The author, Meier Hirsc...
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THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE - A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method Two Volume Set

By: Jevons, W. Stanley

Price: $1,449.99

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co, New York: 1874

Seller ID: 39170

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition of this classic work on Logic and Scientific Method. Two octavo volumes in original brick cloth bindings with gilt lettering at spines. xvi, 463, (1); vii, (1), 480 pp. Engraved frontispiece illustration of The Logical Machine in Volume 1. Clean and tight with some light foxing to verso of endpapers, cloth rubbed at lower corners and spine ends, short tear to cloth at lower spine of Volume 2. Pages of Volume 2 unopened. Quite scarce in this First Edition, especially in the original cloth bindings. William Stanley Jevons was a noted logician, economist and statistician. J...
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Allen dreyen Haupt-Stnden nthige Rechen-Stunden

By: Pescheck, Christian

Price: $299.94

Publisher: Zittau, Verlegts Joh. Jacob Schpss: 1730

Seller ID: 39481

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

568 pages; Contemporary pattern-printed paper-covered boards, portions of a paper spine label titled in ink MS survive, edges stained red. Engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black. Collation: [-]8 A-Z8 Aa-Mm8 Nn4. Frontispiece, 7 p.l., 568 pp. Second edition, [Andere Auflage] of one of the three great mathematical texts by Christian Pescheck (1676 in Hradec Kralove - 1744 in Zittau ) -- a mathematics teacher, astronomer and writer. He was one of the greatest human calculators of his time, and an influential teacher of mathematical sciences at the high school in Zittau from 1...
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THE POETRY OF MATHEMATICS AND OTHER ESSAYS

By: Smith, David Eugene

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Scripta Mathematica: 1934

Seller ID: 42680

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

90 pages; Contents clean and secure in original blue cloth binding; binding has some paper adhering to lower rear board.
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Die Axialitt der Lichtemission und Atomstruktur Mit 11 Tafeln und 47 Figuren

By: Stark, Dr.Johannes ; [1874-1957]

Price: $34.94

Publisher: Berlin, Polytechnische Buchhandlung A.Seydel: 1927

Seller ID: 38889

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

xii, 124 & 11 ff. plates pages; Publisher's yellow printed wrappers. Very slight toning to the wrappers, particularly along the spine. In 1919, Johannes Stark won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields." This splitting of spectral lines in electric fields is known today as the Stark effect. There is an early connection between Stark and the winner of the Nobel prize in Physics for two years after his award -- Albert Einstein. Stark, relatively well established in 1907, as founder and editor of...
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Category: Mathematics and Physics