In this narrative, Richards (history of mathematics, Brown, U.) interweaves her experiences with her son, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor at age nine, and her concurrent intellectual involvement with the life and work of the 19th-century mathematician Augustus De Morgan. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Da: Priceless Books, Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. F. Hb. VG/No Jacket. 1st. 282 pp., notes. Light wear. Codice articolo 106711
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Da: MyLibraryMarket, Waynesville, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. ***Please Read*** mylar cover over the dj - No marks on text - My shelf location 35-b-6. Codice articolo 220917033
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Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First edition. 282pp. Remainder mark, near fine in near fine dust jacket with small ink mark from remainder on front flap. A mother's story of her child with a brain tumor. Codice articolo 406613
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Da: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2000. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (23.95). No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated. Intelligent autobiographical memoir by this mathematician, historian of science, and associate professor at Brown. Includes insightful discussions of the debates among some of the finest mathematical minds from the 17th to the 19th century, including Newton, Leibnitz, and the Victorian mathematician Augustus De Morgan. From the Dust Jacket: "At the time her nine-year-old son was diagnosed with a brain tumor, Joan Richards was deeply involved in writing a book about the life and work of the nineteenth-century mathematician Augustus De Morgan. Immersed in this abstract, logical world of science, Richards was forced by her son's sudden illness to confront a different kind of reality - the irrational world of a serious family illness and its consequences." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 282pp. Codice articolo 012561
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Da: JB Books, Garrison, ND, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition (stated). FIRST PRINTING (stated) of the First Edition. The true story of a mother struggling to cope with her son being diagnosed with a brain tumor, at the time she was personally immersed in writing a book about a 19th-century mathematician and immersed in the abstract, logical world of science, the author then integrating family with science to inform and enrich one another in the presentation of this book as 'an intellectual journey through the history of mathematics and a gripping testament to maternal love'. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains illustrations, notes, 282pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector. Rare. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Codice articolo 00006119
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