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Angles of Reflection, Logic and a Mother's Love
by Richards, Joan L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0716738317
- ISBN 13
- 9780716738312
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2000. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (23.95). No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated. Intelligent autobiographical memoir by this mathematician, historian of science, and associate professor at Brown. Includes insightful discussions of the debates among some of the finest mathematical minds from the 17th to the 19th century, including Newton, Leibnitz, and the Victorian mathematician Augustus De Morgan. From the Dust Jacket: "At the time her nine-year-old son was diagnosed with a brain tumor, Joan Richards was deeply involved in writing a book about the life and work of the nineteenth-century mathematician Augustus De Morgan. Immersed in this abstract, logical world of science, Richards was forced by her son's sudden illness to confront a different kind of reality - the irrational world of a serious family illness and its consequences." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 282pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012561
- Title
- Angles of Reflection, Logic and a Mother's Love
- Author
- Richards, Joan L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0716738317
- ISBN 13
- 9780716738312
- Publisher
- W. H. Freeman and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mathematics; Autobiography; Logic;
- Size
- 8vo. 282pp
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