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The World of Mathematics

by James R. Newman

Stated First Printing

Regular price: $93.75 [30 Day Return Guarantee] Price: $70.31

Book Description

New York NY: Simon & Schuster, 1956 A Small library of the literature of mathematics from A'h-Mose the Scribe to Albert Einstein with commentary and notes by James R. Newman. 4 Volumes, in original pictorial slipcase. Each volume is a Stated First Printing. Original blue cloth with red top edge stain. In fine condition. Crisp and bright with no writing or markings. The publisher's imitation pebbled leather slipcase is all intact and sound with just light rubbing to the illustrated paste-down paper labels. VG++. One hundred and thirty-three books, essays, stories and mathematical diversions with biographical and explanatory comment. Illustrated with 500 drawings, half tones, diagrams, and facsimiles. Volume 1: Introduction; General Survey; Historical and Biographical; Arithmetic, Numbers and the Art of Counting; Mathematics of Space and Motion. Volume 2: Mathematics and the Physical World; Mathematics and Social Science; The Laws of Chance. Volume 3: Statistics and the Design of Experiments; The Supreme Art of Abstraction: Group Theory; Mathematics of Infinity; Mathematical Truth and the Structure of Mathematics; The Mathematical Way of Thinking;Mathematics and Logic; The Unreasonableness of Mathematics; How to Solve It; The Vocabulary of Mathematics; Mathematics as an Art. Volume 4: The Mathematician; Mathematical Machines: Can Machines Think?; Mathematics in Warfare; A Mathematical Theory of Art; Mathematics of the Good; Mathematics in Literature; Mathematics and Music; Mathematics as a Culture Clue; Amusements, Puzzles, Fancies; Index. A very nice set and a first printing to boot! . Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.

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