mathematics queen servant science di temple bell eric (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 8vo (21 cm), XXII, 437 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dust jacket frayed with some loses, joints rubbed). An integration and amplification of two earlier volumes by the same author: The queen of the sciences, 1931 and The handmaiden of the sciences, 1937, this book presents a history of pure and applied mathematics.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pages unmarked. Much of dust jacket spine is torn away. Binding firm. Book.

Condizione: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Buone Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 438 pp., xxiv. First published in 1951; Republished in 1987: this copy First Printing of 1987 Republication issue, with '1' in number line. Following Foreword by Martin Gardner, Author's Introduction, "To the Reader", and "List of Names", Contents divided into 20 Chapters: (1) "Points Of View"; (2) "Mathematical Truth"; I(3) "Breaking Bounds"; (4) " 'The Same, Yet Not The Same' "; (5) "The Art Of Abstraction"; (6) Oaks From Acorns"; (7) "PictorialThinking"; (8) "Landmarks Old And New"; (9) "Groups"; (10) "A Metrical Universe"; (11) "The Queen of Mathematics"; (12) "Abstraction and Prediction"; (13) "From Cyzicus to Neptune"; (14) "Two Kinds of Picture"; (15) "The Chief Instrument of Applied Mathematics"; (16) "Further Calculuses"; (17) "Waves and Vibrations"; (18) "Choice and Chance"; (19) " 'Storming The Heavens' "; (20) "Bedrock"; Index, pp. 417-437; Peter L. Renz, "On Mathematical Terminology," p. 438. Glossy white wrappers with title lettering and subtitle across upper third front cover, below author name lettering in smaller black letters across top front cover; yellow and black illustration on lower two-thirds front cover. HINT of faint foxing on top edge; two small, nugatory indents on front cover; 4" very superficial surface crease down middle rear cover: describes much, much worse than it is, but there you have it. Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners; NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean Text. Appears UNREAD.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No dust jacket. Book has blue covers. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!

hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

437p, cloth, DW, DW shows some edgewear, VG++/VG.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First edition. No additional dates, editions or printings indicated. Near fine hardback in near fine price clipped dust jacket. Trivial, if not barely noticeable darkening to edges of book and a 1/8 inch by 1/8 inch lightened spot to lower edge of front cover. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book, primarily to edges, corners and extremities. Dust jacket has a 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch chip to top edge of front panel at fore-edge corner; light, if not very light wear/hairline creases to top 3/8 inch and bottom 3/8 inch of spine; and minor if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use, primarily to edges, corners, fore-edge folds and extremities.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Mathematics: Queen & Servant of Science Eric Temple Bell ***RARE signed book on mathematics by Eric Temple Bell, known by the pseudonym John Taine for his science fiction novels. With its scarce dust jacket.*** Flat signed by author on the title page and dated May 1955. Condition; NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD Published in 1951 by McGraw-Hill in New York. First edition, first printing: in original blue cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Octavo, xx, 437. With its original dust jacket. Eric Temple Bell (February 1883 December 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician, educator and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. Bell was part of the faculty first at the University of Washington and later at the California Institute of Technology. While at the University of Washington, he taught Howard P. Robertson and encouraged him to enroll at Caltech for his doctoral studies. Bell researched number theory; see in particular Bell series. He is the eponym of the Bell polynomials and the Bell numbers of combinatorics. In 1924 Bell was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize for his work in mathematical analysis. In 1927, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1937. He also wrote several science fiction novels by the pseudonym John Taine, which independently invented some of the earliest devices and ideas of science fiction. Bell wrote a book of biographical essays titled Men of Mathematics which inspired notable mathematicians including Julia Robinson, John Forbes Nash, Jr., and Andrew Wiles to begin careers in mathematics. His book on Fermat's Last Theorem, The Last Problem, was published the year after his death and is a hybrid of social history and the history of mathematics. It inspired mathematician Andrew Wiles to solve the problem. CONDITION REPORT: NF/VG The book is in beautiful NEAR FINE condition. Clean, unfaded cloth. Tight binding. Impressively white pages. Light rubbing to spine tips and corners, former owner info blacked out with a marker on front pastedown else FINE. The price clipped dust jacket is VERY GOOD - sun toning to spine and rear panel; edge wear chipping and small tears and creases, and some larger chips from front fold and spine tips. A few closed tears. Overall, a rare SIGNED first printing of the famous mathematician and author's book with its scarce dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).