Search Results: Mathematics from Charlie's Books

Near Fine condition of this 1989 hardcover book with glossy boards. "A Self-Teaching Guide". 240pp.

Soft-cover book First Owls Book Edition 2002. Illustrations by Christine Heinitz and Thomas Banchoff. Index. 306pp. Upper corner of few pages creased, thus, a Very Good clean and tightly bound book. "The author describes and illustrates the different classifications of knots, their different properties, the ways of measuring their complexity, and the important applications of knot theory to biology, chemistry, and physics."

Fine 1st edition with Fine dust jacket. "This is a book for everyone who ever loved or hated mathematics. It shows mathematics as it really is: emotional, imaginative, beautiful, terrifying, deeply spiritual, metaphorical, and very political - anything but the dry, computational, right-or-wrong manipulation of symbols that is all too often taught as 'mathematics.' " --- George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley.

"Mathematics and the Physical World" - a 1981 paperback edition published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York. "This Dover edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged, slightly corrected republication of the work as published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, in 1959." Preface by the author, Morris Kline. Illustrations. 482 pages plus "a Catalog of Selected Dover Books in all Fields of Interest". Soft-Cover book (8.25" x 5.75") in Fine condition.

Hardcover book 1964 edition published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. 121pp + Index. Small stain on the lower exterior boards only, and a dusty top-edge, else, a clean, unmarked, and tightly bound book in Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket with moderate rubbing in general. From the Preface - "Unless a person has some familiarity with the concept of mathematical discourse, he is not prepared to understand even the rudiments of modern mathematics and its significance. An understanding of the subject of this book, in other words, is essential to mathematical literacy."

"Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty" by Morris Kline. Fall River Press, 2011. First, thus. Selected Bibliography and Index. 448pp. Underlining in the text for the first 23 pages, thus, a Very Good hardcover with a Fine dust jacket.

Soft-cover book 9th printing 2000 - Quality Paperback Book Club and Book of the Month Club selection. 294pp with illustrations. Very Good+ condition.

Soft-cover book reprint 1988 edition by Dover Publications, Inc., New York. Subject Index. Good+ clean and unmarked book with slight cover corner creases. "In short, 'Number Theory and Its History' offers an unusually interesting and accessible presentation of one of the oldest and most fascinating provinces of mathematics."

"The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics" edited by Timothy Ferris with a Foreword by Clifton Fadiman, General Editor. First Edition 1991 indicated with the printing number sequence although the absence of a price on the jacket. Published by Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company in 1991. Includes bibliographical references and index. 859pp. Blue boards with letters in gilt on the spine. Fine hardcover with Fine dust jacket.