Mathematics

Chicago IL: American School of Correspondence, 1921. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Set of four books, parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the course. Preserved in each book is the certificate of completion (certified exam grade form, from the school) of the previous owner (circa 1921). He passed the course. All are intact with some general wear. Typed name of previous owner attached to endpapers of each book. Some beginning binding weakness. Red hardcovers with some wear and age toning, edge bumps, etc. All together a nicely preserved complete set of this coursework.

Fenwick Thomas. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Subterraneous Surveying, and the Magnetic Variation of the Needle, S Hodgson Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1804. 1st Edition. 8vo. Contemporary Tree Calf, recent re-back and new headbands. PP207,title page watermarked 1801, seven folding plates of engineering and mathematical diagrams. Neat, early ownership mark on front pastedown of George Wayne M.E. Skillful repairs to three plates, with very small loss on one plate mainly to blank and fold line area. Pages lightly browned in clean and bright order throughout. A rare early work on mine surveying.

32 ff. with elaborate woodcut on title, woodcut initials and diagrams throughout.  Bound in later marbled paper over boards.  Title and first 3 leaves stained at outer margin, scattered light waterstaining, cropped at top margin affecting running head and foliation, a handful of leaves reinforced in the gutter, repaired tear on ff. 30-31 not affecting legibility. Printed on exceptionally heavy paper; overall very good.


First published Latin edition of De Mensura Circuli and De Quadratura Parabolae, containing Archimedes’ application of the method of exhaustion (the early form of integration) and the earliest theoretical calculation of π; apart from Valla’s excerpts of 1501 in his encyclopedia, the first printed Latin texts of Archimedes (Rose, p. 50).

The brief treatise On the Measurement of the Circle contains "one of the most popular results of [Archimedes’s] mathematical investigations" (Dijsterhuis, p. 222).  Archimedes calculated the ratio between the circumference and the… Read More

London : Baldwin and Cradock, 1831 A collection of papers from the Library of Useful Knowledge bound in one volume. DeMorgan is best known for DeMorgan's Theorem (!A AND !B) == !(A OR B), which forms the basis of the modern technique used to miniaturise complex digital circuits, and thus delivers the extremely high density computing power of the today's microprocessor.

His work on probabilities is a land mark piece of mathematical theory that formed the basis of the actuarial calculations of life insurance policy risks. This is the rare first edition of this work, which appeared in the Library of Useful Knowledge. These were a series of learned papers prepared by the leading scientists and academics of the day, each being either 64 or 32 pages long – and sold at low cost to provide a source for knowledge “for the working man”. They were published by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK).

The series was purchased by Longman Green, and re-issued under… Read More

Florence: Amadoro Massa & Lorenzo de Landis, 1644. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 3 parts in one, 4to. (220x158 mm), [2], [2:blank], [1-2] 3-243 [1], [1-2] 3-115 (i.e. 151) [1] pp., general half-title, part I title with imprint, section titles to parts II & III, dedication to Grand Duke Ferdinand II de' Medici, part III separately signed & paginated with separate dedication to Prince Leopold de' Medici, imprimatur leaf at end, numerous small woodcut diagrams, one full-page engraving, letterpress tables, numerous mispaginations. Internally clean and unspotted, light browning (mainly marginal), contemporary vellum with old ms. mathematical notations on covers. A fine, unsophisticated copy, collated complete. ---- Honeyman VII 2991; Norman 2086; PMM 145; Riccardi II 542; Carli-Favaro 43 (204); Cinti 226 (114). - FIRST EDITION of the only work published during Torricelli's lifetime. A brilliant mathematician, Torricelli was Galileo's assistant and… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940. First Edition, First Printing . Red Cloth. Very Good +/No Jacket. 304 Pp.Red Cloth, Gilt On Brown. Clean, Solid, Spine Gilt Bright, Just Beginning To Fray Along Top Edge. Signed By The Author On The Title Page, And With A Handwritten Sheet Of "Errata (Corrigenda)" Identifying 22 Specific Corrections To Be Made In The Formulas In The Book. Personal Decorative Bookplate Depicting A Very Small Stone Church, No Owner's Name But Drawing Signed Jgs.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. SUB-TITLE: The Foundations of Probability and Its Applications. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. BAYESIAN RATIONALITY Chapter 1. Rational Decisions; Chapter 2. Twenty-seven Principles of Rationality; Chapter 3. 46656 Varieties of Bayesians; Chapter 4. The Bayesian Influence, or How to Sweep Subjectivism under the Carpet; PART II. PROBABILITY Chapter 5. Which Comes First, Probability or Statistics; Chapter 6. Kinds of Probability; Chapter 7. Subjective Probability as the Measure of a Non-measurable Set; Chapter 8. Random Thoughts about Randomness; Chapter 9. Some History of the Hierarchical Bayesian Methodology; Chapter 10. Dynamic Probability, Computer Chess, and the… Read More

Venice: Battista Tramontin, 1689. Vellum. Very Good -. The very scarce 1689 original printing of Antonio Biondini's "Prattica D'Algebra" ("Treatise of Algebra"). Published in Venice in its commonly-read Latin, the original vellum binding is still strong and firmly in place. Forgivable spotting and staining to the panels, internally the pages are surprisingly clean and bright. Octavo, decorative mottled edges. (Cited in "History of Mathematics", Vol. II, pg. 409, David Eugene Smith, Ginn and Company, Boston, 1923).

London: Basil Blackwell, 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Xii, 119 Pp. , With Page Numbers And Text Duplicated In English And German. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Edition In English With German And English Text On Facing Pages. Near Fine, Slight Rubbing At Corners, Gilt Brilliant, Tiny Owner's Signature (Philosopher Irwin Chester Lieb) At Center Of Front Free Endpaper, With Some Infrequent Pencil Emphasis Marks And At Least One Extended Marginalia, And At Least One Double Emphasis Mark In Ink . Dj, Unlaminated And Slightly Taller Than The Book, Is Very Good, With Very Slight Browning To Spine, A Few Very Small Discolorations And Stray Marks, 1/8" Chipping To Part Of Top Of Spine, And At Upper Front Tip. Ernest Chester Lieb (Chet Lieb) Died In Pasadena On May 23, 1992, After A Long Illness But Just Before His Magnum Opus, Past, Present And Future: A Philosophical Study Of Time, Was Published. From Princeton, He Went On To Cornell For An M.A., Followed By A Year… Read More

1723 1st ed Mathematics Instruments Bion Engineering Science Navigation PhysicsRare 1st English edition of Bion's famous mathematics treatise!'The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments' is an important mathematics treatise by Nicolas Bion which is considered "the most famous book devoted to instruments." (Knight). Bion was a 17th-century engineer and math tool maker who was well-known for being the king's engineer.This 1723 first English edition includes all 26 full-page and folding engravings – a highly desirable book! Illustrations in this book depict navigational tools such as compasses, ships and ship masts, armillary spheres, and protractors; it also includes maps, clocks, sundials, globes, vacuum pumps, pendulums, mirrors, telescopes, and more!Item number: #5166Price: $2500BION, NicolasThe construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments : Translated from the French of M. Bion, ... To which are added, the construction and uses of such instruments as are omitted… Read More

Freddy And The Clockwork Twin, Hardcover. Brooks, Walter. Alfred A. Knopf, 1933, 1st Ed. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. USED/ Decorated yellow boards, Gibraltar Library Binding. Good/ No DJ included. A clean, bright solid copy. Please enjoy browsing all of our Freddy The Pig titles. RARE

Beograd, Serbia: Mathematicki Institut SANU. Good; Covers rubbed and bumped, pages worn.. 1996. First Printing. Softcover. 9788680593203 . Mathematical equations. A short biography of Kurepa together with 48 of his mathematical papers on Set Theory, Discrete Mathematics, General Topology, and Number Theory. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 621 pages .

Illustrated with 12 folding engraved plates of optical/geometrical diagrams and a few woodcut diagrams and tables in text; large woodcut decorative tail-pieces, head-pieces and initials. 8vo. Contemporary full speckled calf; boards with double-fillet gilt-ruled borders; spine with five raised bands and gilt-lettered (faded) morocco label; edges speckled red. London: Printed for W. and J. Innys, printers to the Royal Society, 1718. Second English Edition revised and enlarged by Newton. First Octavo Edition. Second issue, with the title-page dated 1718 (the very rare first issue is dated 1717). The first edition appeared in 1704 in quarto. For this second edition the plates were newly engraved to fit the new octavo format. The most important feature of this second edition is that the number of Queries at the end was increased from 16 to 31, including the celebrated Query 28 on the nature of light. The Queries in the initial set were rather brief, but the later ones became more substantial, written as… Read More

Frankfurt & Berlin: J.J. Speier, 1765. First Edition . Half Leather. Very Good. 4to. 1. Theil und 2. Theil bound together. 124pp+123pp.First part called "'Ir Heshbon," on Arithmetic and Algebra; the second part : "Berure Middot," on Geometry. MODERN HALF LEATHER BINDING WITH MARBLED BOARDS. Title page with stamp, , some old handwriting and markings. Upper corner of title page some 3 cm missing and replaced with old repair. Pages with some browning and occasional minor soiling. First pages of the second part trimmrd to text. Last page of the second part with repair to edges, End papers with some old writing and minor soiling . OTHERWISE VERY GOOD.AN EXTREMELY RARE AND INTERESTING WORK of MATHEMATICS in HEBREW. (this work is mentioned in Zeitlkin, Bibliotheca Hebraica....)- Elijah ben Moses Gershon Zahalon was a Jewish Talmudist, mathematician and physician living in Pinczcow, Russian Poland.

Cambridge University Press. 1950. THREE VOLUMES. Large 8vo. (9.7 x 7.1 inches). Reprint of the second Edition, originally published in 1925 (Volume 1) and 1927 (volumes 2 and 3). ---- Volume 1. xlvi, 674pp. - Volume 2. xxxi, 742pp. - Volume 3. viii, 491pp. Some foxing to the first and last few pages of each volume but generally very good clean copies in the publishers dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and publisher logo to the spines. The boards are a little marked and the spines a bit dulled but still very good copies. In original green paper dustwrappers, printed in dark blue, with some darkening to the spines and minor chipping to the extremities but generally very good. ----- Originally published in 1910, 1912 and 1913, the second edition appeared in 1925 and 1927 with a new introduction and three appendices.