1947ref. 026818Los Angeles: University of California 1947. First Edition Second Printing . Blue Wrappers. Very Good . Diagrams. 25 Pp. Simple Folding Schematic Tipped On To Rear Inside Cover. Stated Second Printing Of This Early Work On Scientific Computing; The Machine Was Notably Used In Atomic Energy And Other Calculations. Small Ownership Signature "Diercks" At Top Of Front Cover. Pencil Note Pencil Note On Foreword Page Indicates "Prof. Hurter In Charge Now Granite 30971 Ext. 751 Anal. Used Only For Instruction Purposes." Scarce Only Five Copies Shown In Worldwide Institutional Holdings Indexed In Worldcat. University of California unknown
2007ref. 019756American Mathematical Society 2007. First Edition . Illustrated Boards. Fine. Photographs. As new. Personally inscribed to Dr. Richard Bing dated 3/31 on title page; and with an additional note on her stationery presenting the book to him also dated 3/31. American Mathematical Society hardcover
1973ref. 020095London: Blackie & Son 1973. First Edition First Printing . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine DJ. 221 Pp.Blue Cloth Gilt. First Edition The Uk Edition Precedes The American Edition Published By Hafner. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Trace Of Wear. Blackie & Son hardcover
1931ref. 019547Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company 1931. First Edition . Red Cloth. Fine/Fine DJ. 7 1/2" High. 138 Clean Pages. Red Cloth With Spine And Cover Labels As Issued. Fine Covers Clean And Bright. Fine Dj Spine A Little Faded. ".A View Of What Mathematics Is All About And Of The Progress Of That Field Of Intellectual Endeavor During The Last Century." Written By E. T. Bell Professor Of Mathematics At The California Institute Of Technology Who Also Wrote Science Fiction Under The Pseudonym John Taine. This Example Is Near New And Inscribed To Another Professor A. D. Michal At Cal Tech And Dated Dec 1 1931. The Williams & Wilkins Company hardcover
1935ref. 020067Oxford: Oxford / Clarendon Press 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Near Fine/No DJ. 448 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt 1935 Date On Title Page. First Printing. Near Fine Slight Rubbing At Corners. Previous Owner's Name With Cal Tech Address. Oxford / Clarendon Press hardcover
1959ref. 002791New York: McGraw Hill 1959. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Red Cloth. Fine/Good Dustjacket. 9 1/4" High. 214 Pages. Third Printing. Pon Stamped On Front Dj Flap Ffep Title Page Rear Dj Flap And Bottom Edges. Dj Is Bright And Clean With Small Chipping Around The Edges. Illustrated With Numerous Diagrams And Charts. McGraw Hill hardcover
1918ref. 019127New York: American Mathematical Society 1918. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. Bookplate Of Cal Tech Mathematician C. Hewitt Dix Woodcut On Brown Paper. Hinges Tight Contents Clean And Square Gilt Bright Frayed At Top And Bottom Of Spine. American Mathematical Society hardcover
1938ref. 0184531949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955: Association For Symbolic Logic 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1938. First Edition 1st Printing. Grey-blue Wrappers. Very Good. 53 Separate Numbers 1938-1955 In Original Wrappers As Issued. Not Ex-Library Never Bound. Scarce In Original Condition Like This As Almost All Surviving Issues Were Those Bound For Libraries. Condition Varies From Very Good To Fine. Vol 3 1938 Nos. 1 3 And 4; Vol. 4 1939 No. 4; Vol 5 1940 Nos 1 3 4; Vol 6 1941 Nos. 1 2 4; Vol. 7 1942 No. 2; Vol 8 No. 1 2 And 4; Vol 9 1944 Nos. 2 3 4; Vol. 10 1945 Nos 1 2 3 4; Vol 11 1946 Nos. 1234; Vol 12 1947 Nos 1 2 3 4; Vol. 13 1948 Nos. 1 3 4; Vol. 14 1949 No. 2 4; Vol 15 No. 1 2 3 4; Vol 16 1951 Nos 1 2 3 4; Vol 17 1952 Nos. 1 2 3 4; Volume 18 1953 Nos 12 4; Vol 19 1954 Nos 1 2 4; Volume 20 1955 No. 4. " . The Extant Gains Registered By The Modern Symbolic Treatment Of Logic Have Become Such An Essential Factorin Making Pronouncements Regarding The History Of Logic That We Are Constrained To Say That An Essential Knowledge Of Symbolic Logic Have Become An Indispensable Condition For Any And All Fruitful Study Of The History Of Logic" Heinrich Scholz"Concise History Of Logic". As It Is Impossible To Show That The Cause And Effect Of Any Physical Event Can Be Isolated Sufficiently To Make The Effects Of Forces Susceptible To A Complete Logical Analysis The Connection Of Physical Science And Logic Remains Tangential And Tenuous. The Impossibility Of Exactly Physically Limiting Definition Of Sources And Effects Of Forces In Social Science Make Law Economics And Politics Ridiculous And The Rest Of Social Science Merely Entertaining. The Scientific Use Of Logic Is Limited To It's Use In Occam's Razor The Endless Process Of Successive Removal Of Improper Statements Relationships And Associations In Statements About The Physical World And The Refinement Of Unscientific Arguments In The Imaginary World To Make Them More Acceptable To Contemporary Sensibilities. Association For Symbolic Logic 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 unknown
1937ref. 020596Chicago: Scientific American Inc. 1937. First Edition First Printing . Red Cloth Gilt. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. 319 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. First Edition. Ownership Signature And Critical Marginalia Of Caltech Mathematician Dewey C Duncan Dated November 1938. With The Errata Slip At Front Further Annotated By Duncan With Additional Errata On Verso.According To The Text On Front Flap The First Exposition Of The Theory Of Matrices Over A General Field. Book Uses Method Of Automorphism Groups Rather Than The Earlier Substitution Group. The Book Contains The First Description In English Of The Theory Of Fields With A Valuation And Consequently Of P-Adic Numbers. Gilt Bright Cloth Clean And Evenly Colored Hinges Tight. Dj Worn Large Chip Around Head Of Spine Removing Title And Part Of Descriptions Of 3 Books On Rear Panel Otherwise Small Chips Not Affecting Other Lettering. Maceration In A Small Thin Area Right Along Center Of Fore Eedge Of Front Cover With A Few Nicks To Cloth Of Book Beneath. Per Wikipedia Abraham Adrian Albert 1905 -1972 Was An American Mathematician. A First Generation American He Was Born In Chicago And Most Associated With That City. He Received His Bachelor Of Science In 1926 Masters In 1927 And Phd In 1928 At The Age Of 22. All Degrees Were Obtained From The University Of Chicago. He Married Around The Same Time As His Graduation. He Spent His Postdoctoral Year At Princeton University And Then From 1929 To 1931 He Was An Instructor At Columbia University. During This Period He Worked On Abelian Varieties And Their Endomorphism Algebras. He Returned To Princeton For The Opening Year Of The Institute For Advanced Study In 1933-34 And Spent Another Year In Princeton In 1961-62 As The First Director Of The Communications Research Division Of Ida The Institute For Defense Analyses. From 1931 To 1972 He Served On The Mathematics Faculty At The University Of Chicago Where He Became Chair Of The Mathematics Department In 1958 And Dean Of The Physical Sciences Division In 1961. In 1939 He Received The American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize In Algebra For His Work On Riemann Matrices. As A Research Mathematician He Was One Of The Principal Developers Of The Theory Of Linear Associative Algebras And As A Pioneer In The Development Of Linear Non-Associative Algebras Although All Of This Grew Out Of His Work On Endomorphism Algebras Of Abelian Varieties. He Is Best Known For His Work On The Albert-Brauer-Hasse-Noether Theorem On Finite-Dimensional Division Algebras Over Number Fields And As The Developer Of Albert Algebras Which Are Also Known As Exceptional Jordan Algebras. As An Applied Mathematician He Also Did Work For The Military During World War Ii And Thereafter. One Of His Most Notable Achievements Was His Groundbreaking Work On Cryptography. He Prepared A Manuscript "Some Mathematical Aspects Of Cryptography" For His Invited Address At A Meeting Of The American Mathematical Society In November 1941. The Theory That Developed From This Work Can Be Seen In Digital Communications Technologies. After Wwii He Became A Forceful Advocate Favoring Government Support For Research In Mathematics On A Par With Physical Sciences. He Served On Policy-Making Bodies At The Office Of Naval Research The United States National Research Council And The National Science Foundation That Funneled Research Grants Into Mathematics Giving Many Young Mathematicians Career Opportunities Previously Unavailable. Due To His Success In Helping To Give Mathematical Research A Sound Financial Footing He Earned A Reputation As A "Statesman For Mathematics." Albert Was Elected A Fellow Of The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences In 1968. Scientific American, Inc. hardcover
1996ref. 0155991996. Original Manuscript . No Binding. Very Good. 41 pp. Neatly handwritten manuscript by a professor at CalTech. unknown
1932ref. 020085Paris: Hermann et Cie 1932. First Edition . Original Wrappers. Very Good. Signature And Personal Information Of Cal Tech Professor Paco Lagerstrom Dated 1947. Per Wikipedia Élie Joseph Cartan 1869 - 1951 Was An Influential French Mathematician Who Did Fundamental Work In The Theory Of Lie Groups Differential Systems Coordinate-Free Geometric Formulation Of Pdes And Differential Geometry. He Also Made Significant Contributions To General Relativity And Indirectly To Quantum Mechanics. He Is Widely Regarded As One Of The Greatest Mathematicians Of The Twentieth Century. His Son Henri Cartan Was An Influential Mathematician Working In Algebraic Topology. As A Student Of Cartan The Geometer Shiing-Shen Chern Wrote: Usually The Day After Meeting With Cartan I Would Get A Letter From Him. He Would Say "After You Left I Thought More About Your Questions."-He Had Some Results And Some More Questions And So On. He Knew All These Papers On Simple Lie Groups Lie Algebras All By Heart. When You Saw Him On The Street When A Certain Issue Would Come Up He Would Pull Out Some Old Envelope And Write Something And Give You The Answer. And Sometimes It Took Me Hours Or Even Days To Get The Same Answer. I Had To Work Very Hard. . Hermann et Cie unknown
1982ref. 015499Menasha / Ann Arbor: Association for Symbolic Logic 1982. First Edition . Grey Wrappers. Near Fine. Pp. 471-780. Original Gray Wrappers. A Clean Lightly Used Copy With A Very Narrow Area Of Fading Along Edges. Association for Symbolic Logic unknown
1923ref. 009297National Research Council / The Scientific Monthly 1923. First Separate Edition . Printed Wrappers. Very Good. Offprint from The Scientific Monthly November 1923. National Research Council / The Scientific Monthly unknown
1958ref. 022434New York: McGraw- Hill 1958. First Edition First Printing . Grey Cloth. Near Fine/Good DJ. 810 Pp. Book Is Lightly Used No Marks Except Generic Inscription "With Compliments Of I. S. Sokolnikoff" On Front Endpaper. Dj Worn Small Losses At Corners Spine Background Faded But Lettering Clear. Per Wikipedia Ivan Stephan Sokolnikoff 1901 Chernigov Province Russian Empire - 1976 Santa Monica Was A Russian-American Applied Mathematician Who Specialized In Elasticity Theory And Wrote Several Mathematical Textbooks For Engineers And Physicists. Born To A Wealthy Family In Tsarist Russia Ivan Sokolnikoff Was Educated By Private Tutors And At Anders Classical Gymnasium In Kiev. During The Russian Revolution As A Tsarist Naval Officer He Was Wounded In Combat Off The Kuril Islands. With The Victory Of The Reds He Became A Refugee In China. There He Worked For A Subsidiary Of An American Electrical Firm Until 1922 When He Became An American Immigrant In Seattle. In 1946 He Became A Mathematics Professor At The University Of California At Los Angeles Ucla. There He Retired As Professor Emeritus In 1965. McGraw- Hill hardcover
1929ref. 019133Madras: G. A. Natesan & Co 1929. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 1/1500 Copies. Bright And Clean Cover Lettering Strong On Front Cover And Spine Hinges Tight. Small Stamp Of A Southern California Professor On Front Endpaper. Per Wikipedia Ganapathi Agraharam Annadhurai Ayyar Natesan 1873 - 1948 Was An Indian Writer Journalist Publisher Politician And Freedom-Fighter From The Erstwhile Madras Presidency. He Was The Founder And Proprietor Of G. A. Natesan & Co. Which Published Nationalist Books The Most Prominent Among Whom Was The Indian Review. Natesan Was Involved With The Indian Independence Movement Right From His Early Days. In 1900 He Started The Indian Review A Monthly Publication In English. While Covering Mostly Nationalistic Themes The Indian Review Also Included Literary Reviews Illustrations And Sections On Economy And Agriculture. Natesan Advertised On The Front Page That His Publication Was "Devoted To The Discussion Of All Topics Of Interest". When Mahatma Gandhi Visited Madras For The First Time Since His Arrival In India In 1915 He Stayed At Natesan's House At Thambu Chetty Street Georgetown. His Stay Lasted From 17 April 1915 To 8 May 1915. In His Later Life Natesan Underwent A Change Of Ideology And Joined The Indian Liberal Party. He Was Elected Joint Secretary Of The Liberal Party In 1922. He Was First Nominated As A Non-Official Member To The Council Of State In 1923 And For A Second Time In 1931. During His Tenure As A Member Of The Council Of State Natesan Served As Member Of The Indian Delegation To The Empire Parliamentary Association In Canada. He Also Served As The Member Of The Indian Iron And Steel Tariff Board In 1933-34. Natesan Was Appointed Sheriff Of Madras In 1938. G. A. Natesan & Co hardcover
1966ref. 023344New York: Da Capo Press 1966. First Edition Thus . Boards. Fine/Very Good DJ. Xi; Xvi; 292 Pp 11 P Index 1 Pp Additons / Corrections At Rear. A Reproduction Of The Original Text With Historical Introduction By Barbour. Book Is Nearly New Except For Previous Owner's Signature On Front Endpaper. Dj Lightly Used Two Small Shallow Chips Along Top Edge Da Capo Press hardcover
1943ref. 016670Washington 1944 / 1945: Army Air Forces Training Command 1943 1944 1943. Original WWII Training Manuals . Stapled Wrappers. Very Good. 55 and 54 pp. Original mimeo printings complete. An introduction to mathematics and physics for WWII American soldiers two separate manuals. Lightly used pages square. Classified as 'restricted". Army Air Forces Training Command 1943 1944 unknown
1958ref. 019579Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1958. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine DJ. 501 Pp. Red Brown Cloth Gilt. First Printing Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Bright Clean No Names Or Marks Except Price On Dj Is Neatly Inked Out. Harvard University Press hardcover
1938ref. 020362New York: G. E. Stechert & Co. 1938. First American Printing Thus . Red Cloth. Very Good/Very Good DJ. 399 Pp. Red Cloth. First American Edition First Published In Peking In 1936. Book Is Clean Spine Gilt Bright But Not Brilliant Light Bumping To Spine Ends. Ownership Signature Of Caltech Mathematician Dewey C. Duncan On Front Endpaper. Orange Printed Dj Clean Spine Somewhat Faded 3/4" X 3/8" Chip Top Of Spine 1 1/2" X 3/4" Chip At Upper Right Of Front Panel 3/8" X 3/16" Chip Lower Right Of Front Panel With A 1" Closed Tear And Associated Wrinkling Not Price Clipped. G. E. Stechert & Co. hardcover
1932ref. 020555New York: American Mathematical Society 1932. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good . 172 Pp. Light Rubbing Just At Corners Spine Gilt Weak But Present.Signed And Dated "Morgan Ward / Pasadena California 1932". Morgan Ward 1901-1963 Was An American Mathematician A Professor Of Mathematics At The California Institute Of Technology. Ward Received His Ph.D. From Caltech In 1928 With A Dissertation Entitled The Foundations Of General Arithmetic; His Advisor Was Eric Temple Bell. He Became A Research Fellow At Caltech And Then In 1929 A Member Of The Faculty; He Remained At Caltech Until His Death In 1963. Among His Doctoral Students Was Robert P. Dilworth Who Also Became A Caltech Professor. Ward Is The Academic Ancestor Of Over 450 Mathematicians And Computer Scientists Through Dilworth And Another Of His Students Donald Darling. Ward's Research Interests Included The Study Of Recurrence Relations And The Divisibility Properties Of Their Solutions Diophantine Equations Including Euler's Sum Of Powers Conjecture And Equations Between Monomials Abstract Algebra Lattice Theory And Residuated Lattices Functional Equations And Functional Iteration And Numerical Analysis.He Also Worked With The National Science Foundation On The Reform Of The Elementary School Mathematics Curriculum And With Clarence Ethel Hardgrove He Wrote The Textbook Modern Elementary Mathematics Addison-Wesley 1962. Ward's Works Are Collected In The Caltech Library. A Symposium In His Memory Was Held At Caltech On November 21-22 1963. American Mathematical Society hardcover
1938ref. 019851Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1938. First Edition First Printing . Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 416 Pp. Dark Blue Cloth Gilt. First Printing. Not Ex-Library With Personal Ownership Signature Of Mathematician And Author William L. Morris. Photocopy Of Addenda And Corrigenda Laid In; This Was Bound In For Later Printings. Cambridge University Press hardcover
2001ref. 025631George Robert Talbott 2001. First Edition . Plastic Wrappers. Fine. 35 Pp. Softcover Bound With Vinyl Covers. Fine. Inscribed By Talbott To A Personal Friend. George Robert Talbott unknown
1931ref. 003338Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company 1931. First Edition . Red Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine DJ. 7 1/2" High. 138 Clean Pages. Red Cloth With Spine And Cover Labels As Issued. Near Fine Covers Clean And Bright. Near Fine Dj Faded With Slight Edge Wear At Top Edges. ".A View Of What Mathematics Is All About And Of The Progress Of That Field Of Intellectual Endeavor During The Last Century." Written By A Professor Of Mathematics At The California Institute Of Technology Who Also Wrote Science Fiction Under The Pseudonym John Taine. The Williams & Wilkins Company hardcover
1931ref. 020093Berlin : Verlag Von Julius Springer 1931. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 469 Pp. Second Printing 1931 18 Pp Longer And With A New Second Preface By Courant. Original Yellow Cloth Lettered In Black. Ownership Signature Of Caltech Professor Milton S Plesset On Front Pastedown. Very Good Verlag Von Julius Springer hardcover
1962ref. 024925Cambridge: Harvard University / Belknap Press 1962. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good DJ. 359 Pp. Black Cloth. First Edition. Lightly Used. Front Hinge Faintly Cracked Ownership Signature Of Logician Sidney A. Luckenbach And With His Underlinings Emphasis Lines And A Few Gloss Notes On First 46 Pp. Dj With Small Losses Near Center Of Spine And Near Top Of Rear Flap Fold Price On Front Flap Has Been Inked Out. Harvard University / Belknap Press hardcover