Search Results: Mathematics from Elk Creek Heritage Books

NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. 7th Printing First Edition, Seventh Impression. Hard cover with maroon cloth boards in very good condition, showing light shelf & edge wear. Text block clean and tight. Former owner's name written on inside of back cover. No dust jacket. As of September 2019, WorldCat shows only two institutional holdings, both in Italy. * From the book, published in 1932, ""This book has been written in the hope that it may encourage and assist in a more general use of statistical methods in business. It is intended primarily for use as a textbook in university and college courses in Business Statistics, especially in those which emphasize the actual application of statistics to business problems. It is the aim throughout the book to introduce the subject to future business men and women in such a way that they will appreciate the usefulness of statistical methods and employ them in their practical problems when they have entered upon… Read More

London, Great Britain: Pergamon Press [Distributed in the U.S. by Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.), 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Translated by O.M. Blunn; Translation edited by A.D. Booth. Copyright 1965 Pergamon Press Ltd. Stated: First English Edition 1965. Made in Great Britain. This is a translation of the orginal Russian (Metody vychislenii) published by Fizmatgiz, Moscow. Hard cover in fine condition with red boards; spine contains black panel with gold gilt lettering, lines and additional lettering on red. Boards have been encased in protective clear jacket and have remained as new. Offset of small pieces of tape on board verso show on several pages following end paper. Former owner's name in each volume on small card at top corner of verso of front boards. Interior text blocks of both volumes : no writing, no markings noted. Vol I: 464 numbered pages; Vol II: 679 numbered pages. * From the Preface: ""The present book is based on a specially prepared… Read More

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition. Pictorial boards. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. * Contains the following sections: 0) Why Should You Study Mathematics - and How?; 1) Decimals; 2) Fractions; 3) Division; 4) Estimation and Approximation; 5) Negative Numbers; 6) Factorization; Appendix) Whole Number Algorithms.