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New York, London: Interscience Publishers, 1959. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. A solid copy of the hardcover first edition of Serge Lang's second book. Bound in the original gray paper-covered boards. Light rubbing to the corners and spine ends. Square and reasonably tight. Inner hinges are perfect. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings, including 2 spine labels (one removed leaving a superficial scar). Text pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. This book covers topics not found in Mumford, e.g. the construction of the Picard variety, the Albanese variety, some formulas concerning numerical questions, the reciprocity law for correspondences and its application to Kummer theory, Chow's theory for the K/k-trace and image, etc. Number 7 in the INTERSCIENCE TRACTS IN PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS series, L. Bers, R. Courant, and J. J. Stoker, editors. Serge Lang (1927-2005) was a French-born American mathematician and prolific author of… Read More

Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1967. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. A solid copy. Square and reasonably tight. Inner hinges are perfect. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings. Text pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. This edition has the errata list with 16 corrections plus 33 problems solved. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index. Bound in the original black boards, lettered in shiny gold over a bright blue spine panel. Volume 12 in the INTERNATIONAL SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS IN PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS, edited by I. N. Sneddon, M. Stark, S. Ulam, et al.. Reprint of the Third Edition (1960).. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No dust jacket. 8vo. 368pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Blue Dust Jacket is bright and shiny, with only 1 tiny edge chip. No tears. No creases. Pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bibliographical references. 2 appendices. Index. First printing, with complete number row (7654321) on the final text page. Bound in the original gray cloth, decorated with gold and silver. From the Dust Jacket: "For the graduate student who has had some exposure to classical partial differential equations, here is a self-contained, detailed presentation of various modern abstract methods in PDE. Some very recent results appear and numerous abstract techniques are discussed and exploited, especially in the area of abstract evolution equations. the text also contains some of the recent theory of nonlinear monotone operators applied to elliptic and variational problems. The chapter… Read More

San Francisco and London:: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1966. A solid copy. Square and reasonably tight. Inner hinges are perfect. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings. Text pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Translated from the Second Russian Edition (1933) by F. Holling and J. B. Roberts. Translation edited by J. B. Roberts, who also added a short, updated bibliography on group theory. Bound in the original pale gray cloth, lettered in black and metallic blue.. First Edition in English, with additions. Hard Cover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY./No jacket.. 8vo. ix, 174pp..

Ann Arbor, Michigan:: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1953. Previous owner's name. Minor browning to endpapers. A few light pencil notes (easily erasable). Bound in the original green pebble-grain cloth. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket.. 8vo. (x), 134pp..

New York: Dover, 1958. NOTE: many editions of this title have only 294 pages, This one has ix + 566 pages. Cover is in Good condition with moderate soil, rubbing and edgewear. Flat, uncreased spine. Internal condition is Very Good. Previous owner's name on the front inside cover. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Index. Bound in the original dark yellow wraps. From the cover: "An Introduction to Partial Differentiation, Complex Number and Vectors, Differential Equations, Infinite Integrals, Calculus of Variations, Infinite Series, Functions of a Complex Variable, Elliptic Functions & Integrals, Functions of Real Variables, and Other Important Topics in Advanced Mathematics." As usual with Dover quality paperbacks, the pages are not just glued at the spine but also sewn together for superior durability. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall.. Reprint of the Ginn & Company original. Softcover. Good - Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. ix,… Read More

Austin, Texas: Humanities Research Center / University of Texas at Austin, 1979. 1979 First Edition. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Sharp corners. Flat spine. NO creases. NO chips. NO tears. Bright, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Catalogue of an Albert Einstein exhibition at the Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 5 February - 31 March 1979. 176 annotated entries. Preface by John A. Wheeler. Illustrated with old photographs, document reproductions and equations. Bound in the original pictorial beige wraps. Oblong. 12" wide by 9" tall.. First Edition. Softcover. New. Unpaged [but 42 pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., 1966. This is Algebra Two only (Not Algebra One). Appears unread. Fine condition, NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - apparently never read. 1966. 8vo. xi, 468pp. [479 total pages]. New Edition with "substantial revision and addition of new material throughout, especially in the areas of trigonometry, equations and inequalities, and use of set notation." Review exercises. Tables. Index. Bound in the original red and gray boards, stamped in white and red. A volume from the Merrill mathematics series.. New Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xi, 468pp. [479 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Louvain [Belgium]: Central National Belge de Recherches de Logique / Nauwelaerts Printing, 1983. Very Good condition. 16 cm x 24 cm. A solid copy -- square and tight. Bound in the original paper wrappers, with minor crease to one corner of the front cover. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. This issue contains 7 papers -- 1 in French, 1 in German, and 5 in English including: ON AN APPLICATION OF TRUTH-FUNCTIONS TO THE LOGIC OF PREDICATES by Alfons Grieder. This is one of several dozen books and periodicals from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature, or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately, this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. [But please check our inventory for several others that do]. Alonzo Church (1903 - 1995) was professor of mathematics at Princeton University (1929-1967) and of… Read More

New York, London:: Academic Press, 1969. Inner hinges are perfect. Mild EX-LIBRARY copy with NO library markings on the spine or covers. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings on the endpapers. Text pages are unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with figures. Tables. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original black cloth, lettered in shiny gold and silver on the spine and front cover. . Second printing of the 1968 original.. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY./No Jacket.. 8vo. ix, 165pp..

Providence, Rhode Island:: American Mathematical Society, 1966. 7" wide by 10.25" tall. A solid copy. Square and tight with sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings. Text pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, Volume IX. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original maroon cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. Proceedings of the 12th Summer Mathematical Institute of AMS, held at the University of Colorado in Boulder, July 5 to August 6, 1965. The papers focus on five themes: 1) linear algebraic groups and arithmetic groups; 2) adèles and arithmetic properties of algebraic groups; 3) automorphic functions and spectral decomposition of L(2)-spaces of coset spaces; 4) holomorphic automorphic functionson bounded symmetric domains and moduli problems; 5) vector valued cohomology and deformation of discrete… Read More

London: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1965. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. A solid copy -- square and reasonably tight. Corners are NOT bumped. Crack to rear inner hinge has been neatly and securely reinforced with clear tape. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings. Text pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. A volume in the MONOGRAPHS ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS series, E. T. Goodwin and L. Fox, general editors. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original brownish-orange cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 8vo. xviii, 662pp.

New York, Oxford, London, Paris:: Pergamon Press, 1962. 6.75" wide by 9.5" tall. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. Mild EX-LIBRARY copy with NO library markings on the spine. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on the endpapers. Text pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bibliotheksexemplar. Subtitle: "Sponsored by the International Mathematical Union, Organized on behalf of the Netherlands Mathematical Society by Hans Freudenthal." Contains 27 papers presented at the conference. Based on a quick review of the Table of Contents, it appears that about 13 of them are in English, 12 in German, and 2 in French. Illustrated with figures. Tables. Bibliographical references. Handsomely bound in the original patterned blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine EX-LIBRARY./No Jacket.. 8vo. vii, 208pp..

Bucuresti, Romania: Universitatea din Bucuresti, Facultatea de Matematica, 1985. Very Good condition. 17 cm x 24 cm. Bound in white wrappers, stamped in blue and black. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. This issue contains 11 papers -- 8 in English, 3 in French. List of bibliographical references after each article. This is one of several dozen books and periodicals from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature, or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately, this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. [But please check our inventory for several others that do]. Alonzo Church (1903 - 1995) was professor of mathematics at Princeton University (1929-1967) and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA (1967-1990). He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem, Church's… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1966. Very Good condition. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Tiny hole punch over price sticker. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. Pages are unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat, uncreased spine. 5.25" wide by 8.5" tall. 46 figures. 21 tables. References. Additional Bibliography. Index. Quality softcover binding, with pages that are sewn (not glued) for many years of use. From the rear cover: "A successful analysis of statistical data demands a careful choice of the underlying mathematical model. Historically, one model has been used for almost all data: the independent variable X has been assumed exact, and the dependent variable Y to have all the error... In this book, the author describes alternative techniques of statistical analysis... The book is intended as a practical tool for the experimentalist in the fields of engineering and physical science." . Corrected reprint of… Read More

New York:: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings on the endpapers. Text pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. A Wiley Publication in Mathematical Statistics. Contains 10 chapters in 2 parts. Part I: The analysis of variance in the case of models with fixed effects and independent observations of equal variance. Part II: The analysis of variance in the case of other models. This book contains 117 problems of which 38 require numerical computations with "real" data. Six appendices. Tables. Charts. Author Index and Bibliography. Subject Index. Bound in the original dark blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold over medium blue panels on the spine and front cover. From the preface: "In this book I have tried to elucidate in a unified way what appears to me at present to be the basic theory of the analysis of variance. This… Read More

Toronto, New York, London:: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1948. Bright, clean, square and tight. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on the endpapers. Inner hinges are perfect. Text pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with figures. There is a bibliography with nearly 150 entries. Index. Handsomely bound in the original dark blue cloth, with maroon lettering on the front cover, and shiny gold over a maroon spine panel. From the author's preface: "In writing this book, I have tried to keep in mind the student of rather modest mathematical preparation, presupposing only a first course in function theory. Thus, I have included such things as a proof of Schwarz's inequality, theorems on uniformly bounded families of analytic functions, properties of Stieltjes integrals, and an introduction to the matrix calculus. I have presupposed a knowledge of the elementary properties of linear fractional transformations in the complex plane. It… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1964. 5.25" wide by 8.5" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. Pages are unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat, uncreased spine. Preface. With 263 problems and 160 figures. Index. Bound in the original cream-color pictorial wraps, decorated in gray and black. Quality softcover binding, with pages that are sewn (not glued) for many years of use. . Reprint of 1933 original.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine condition. x, 428pp. + 7 page publisher's catalogue..

Princeton, New Jersey:: Princeton University Press, 1960. Inner hinges are sound. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on the endpapers. Text pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Graphs. Tables. Equations. Contains 8 papers delivered at the Conference on Analytic Functions held September 2-14, 1957 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Volume 24 in the PRINCETON MATHEMATICAL SERIES. Bibliographical references. Appendix. Bound in the original rust-color cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. . First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY./No Jacket.. 8vo. vii, 197pp..

Bethel, Connecticut: Rutledge Books, Inc, 1997. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket (light shelfwear/one crease each to the jacket's front and rear inner flaps). NO chips, tears or fading. Sharp corners. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked - apparently seldom, if ever read. Bibliographical references. Bound in the original black leatherette (imitation leather), stamped in bright silver. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "If you are a regular purchaser of lottery tickets, then the information contained within this book has a high degree of probability of saving you hundreds of dollars over the course of your betting life. In Lee Whiting's brilliant tutorial treatise, he makes use of the wisdom of the ages. Drawing on the tenets of 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, and the 18th century mathematician Abraham DeMoivre, their teachings function… Read More