George Parker Bidder: the Calculating Boy. with an Appreciation of His Calculating Ability by Joyce Linfoot.
by Clark, E F. & Linfoot, Joyce
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0950854301
- ISBN 13
- 9780950854304
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About This Item
Bedford: KSL Publications. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 0950854301 . Fine blue faux leather with silver titles. No inscriptions or marks. Coloured frontis and a further 90 black & white illustrations. Fine dust jacket. An excellent copy. Loosley laid in is a copy of a facsimile of text of the1850 edition of the account of "Difficult questions and his surprising rapid answers" Despite receiving little formal schooling it wasn't long before his family realised that George had a remarkable facility for memorising and manipulating large numbers in his head. His father William capitalised on his son's extraordinary gift by presenting George as the Calculating Prodigy in local fairs. He later became a respected railway and civil engineer being elected President of The Institute of Civil Engineers. ; Black & white photographs and maps.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xxii + 518 pages .
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- Title
- George Parker Bidder: the Calculating Boy. with an Appreciation of His Calculating Ability by Joyce Linfoot.
- Author
- Clark, E F. & Linfoot, Joyce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0950854301
- ISBN 13
- 9780950854304
- Publisher
- KSL Publications
- Place of Publication
- Bedford
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- 0950854301, George Parker Bidder, Mathematicians, Biography
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