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Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1988. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Green and white wrapper with green lettering. 103 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Special Functions and the Bieberbach Conjecture by Nicholas Kazarinoff / The Strong Law of Small Numbers by Richard K. Guy / Every Smooth Map of Euclidean Space into itself Is an Expansion Followed by a Contraction by John Mitchell and Lee Rubel / The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition by Leonard F. Klosinski, G. L. Alexanderson, and Loren C. Larson / A Simple Verification of Llieff's Conjecture for Polynomials with Three Zeros by G. L. Cohen and G. H. Smith".... and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1993. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Pink and white wrapper with a black and white illustration on the front and black and pink lettering. 77 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Thomas Archer Hirst ---- Mathematician Xtravagent II. Student Days in Germany / J. Helen Gardner and Robin J. Wilson....How to Make Wavelets / Robert S. Strichartz....A Matrix Maximum / William C. Waterhouse....Chaotic Motion of a Pendulum with Oscillatory Forcing / S. P. Hastings and J. B. Mcleod....An Application for the Curiosity (log N)' / David A. Wagstaff, Theodore A. Norman, and Douglas M. Campbell....Vandermonde Strikes Again / Miriam Schapiro Grosof and Geraldine Taiani".... and many other features and articles… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1999. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with blue and black lettering. 86 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "A Modern Treatment of the 15 Puzzle by Aaron F. Archer / Effects of Calculus Reform: Local and National by James F. Hurley , Uwe Koehn, Susan L. Gantner / Some Fundamental Control Theory II: Feedback Linearization of Single Input Nonlinear Systems by William J. Terrell / The Dirichlet Problem for Ellipsoids by John A. Baker / Curves Whose Curvature Depends on Distance from the Origin by David A. Singer / The Fifty-Ninth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition by Leonard F. Klosinski, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Loren C. Larson............."---------… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1991. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper, some fading along the edges of the wrapper, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Red and white wrapper with red lettering. 109 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "From Wythoff's Nim to Chebyshev's Inequality by Kenneth B. Stolarsky / A Topological Approach to Digital Topology by T. Yung Kong, Ralph Kopperman, and Paul R. Meyer / Linear Algebra by Analogy by Scott H. Hochwald / An Obvious Proof of Burnside's Lemma by Kenneth B. Bogart / Poisson Integrals of Riemann Integrable Functions by J. Kral and W. F. Pfeffer / Some Remarks on Weak Continuity by James Chew and Jingcheng Tong".... and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to -… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1969. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; former owners name is written in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 117 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Formal Power Series by Ivan Niven / An Elementary Solution of the Brachistochrone Problem by D. C. Benson / Formac Meets Pappus by Elsie Cerutti and P. J. Davis / On Newton's Inequality for Real Polynomials by J. N. Whiteley / The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition by J. H. McKay / Buffon's Noodle Problem by J. F. Ramaley / An Application of Two Estimates for e by R. B. Darst / Reducibility of Polynomials of Odd Degree (II) by D. B. Lloyd......" ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover.… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1982. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper, some fading along the edges of the wrapper, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Orange and white wrapper with orange lettering. 84 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "The Width of a Chair by Gilbert Strang / Blowing up Singularities in Classical Mechanical Systems by Robert L. Devaney / Petri Nets and Marked Graphs ---- Mathematical Models of Concurrent Computation by Richard Johnsonbaugh and Tadao Murata / Can All Tiles of a Tiling Have Five-Fold Symmetry? by Ludwig Danzer, Branko Grunbaum, and G. C. Shephard".... and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1999. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with blue and black lettering. 86 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and diagrams! Contents include: "Some Fundamental Control Theory I: Controllability, Observability, and Duality by William J. Terrell / The Education of a Pure Mathematician by Bruce Pourciau / Multivariable Calculus and the Plus Topology by Daniel J. Velleman / The Forced Damped Pendulum: Chaos, Complication, and Control............."--------- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America, 1974. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name is in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 99 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Award for Distinguished Service to Professor R. H. Bing / Award of the 1974 Chauvenet Prize to Professor Peter D. Lax / Real Proofs of Complex Theorems (and vice versa) by Lawrence Zalcman / Variations on a Theorem by Archimedes by Michael Golomb / Correction to "Differentiation under the Integral Sign" by Harley Flanders.............." ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America, 1976. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 91 (pages number 317-408) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Some Applications of the Wreath Product Construction by Charles Wells / A Small Step Backwards by Wilbur Walkoe, Jr. / The Inverse as a Fixed Point in Function Space by Michael Freeman / The Measure of Recognizable Sets of Real Numbers by Frank Rubin / Another Characterization of Semiprime Ideals in C(X) by W. T. Whitley / A Rellich Compactness Theorem for Sets of Finite Volume by A. V. Lair / A Theorem on Differential Operators by L. Carlitz / The Two-State Markov Process and Additional Events by L. Rade.............." ----- and many other… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1988. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Green and white wrapper with green lettering. 80 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "All Topologies Come from Generalized Metrics by Ralph Kopperman / Prime Desert n-Tuplets by George W. Polites / The Determination of Kaprekar Convergence and Loop Convergence of All Three-Digit Numbers by Klaus E. Eldridge and Seok Sagong / What Pythagoras Could Have Done by Yoram Sagher / A Question of Protocol by I. Bouwer and Z. Star / Examples of Infinite, Incongruent Exact Covers by John Beebee".... and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1979. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; some light fading to the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Brown and white wrapper with white and brown lettering. 83 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Picturesque Exponential Sums, I by D. H. Lehmer and Emma Lehmer / Discovering Theorems with a Computer: The Case of y = sin(xy) by Wendell Mills, Boris Weisfeiler, and Allan M. Krall / The Godel Incompleteness Theorem From a Length-of-Proof Perspective by John Dawson / The Twentieth International Mathematical Olympiad by Samuel L. Greitzer / The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition by L. F. Klosinski, G. L. Alexanderson, A. P. Hillman / Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries Without Continuity by Marvin… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1977. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 73 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Award for Distinguished Service to Professor Victor Klee by Truman Botts / Error-Correcting Codes and Invariant Theory: New Aplications of a Nineteenth-Century Technique by N. J. A. Sloane / Singular Cardinals and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis by J. E. Baumgartner and K. Prikry / Complementary Systems of Integers by A. S. Fraenkel..........." ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1979. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; some light fading to the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Brown and white wrapper with white and brown lettering. 103 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Digital Topology by Azriel Rosenfeld / Finding How Many Roots a Polynomial Has in (0,1) or (0,) by John W. Pratt / Summing an Alternating Series by Richard Johnsonbaugh / Recent Applications of Some Old Work of Laguerre by Emil Grosswald / Nonstandard Set Theory by Karel Hrbacek / Fifty Years Ago by R. P. Boas / A Drawing No One Can Draw by M. Stojakovic......" ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1979. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; some light fading to the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Brown and white wrapper with white and brown lettering. 73 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Award for Distinguished Service to Otto Neugebauer by R. P. Boas / Award of the Chauvenet Prize to Dr. Neil J. A. Sloane by D. P. Roselle / Prisoners' Dilemma and Professional Sports Drafts by S. J. Brams and P. D. Straffin, Jr. / An Introduction to Ramanujan's 'Lost' Notebook by George E. Andrews / Universal States of Finite Anit-Plane Shear: Ericksen's Problem in Miniature by James K. Knowles............." ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1977. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 87 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Poster Sessions at the January 1978 Meeting of the Association / Applications of Conformal Mapping to Potential Theory Through Computer Graphics by Donald T. Piele, Morris W. Firebaugh and Robert Manulik / Finite Simple Groups by James F. Hurley and Arunas Rudvalis / Addendum to 'Can One See the Shape of a Surface?' by Reese T. Prosser..........." ------ and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1969. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; former owners name is written in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 143 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "How to Solve Linear Inequalities by David Gale / Spectral Sequences for the Layman by Barry Mitchell / The Jordan Curve Theorem for Piecewise Smooth Curves by R. N. Pederson / Legendre's Identity by Eckford Cohen / Notes on Topological Spaces with Minimum Neighborhoods by Francois Lorrain / On Similarity in Functions of Several Variables by D. A. Sprecher / The Derivative as a Linear Transformation by A. W. Roberts / On the Characteristic Roots of a Matrix by G. Loizou / Compactness and Certain Subclasses of Schlicht Functions by R. A. Whiteman......"… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America, 1981. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is gently creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Green and white wrapper with green and white lettering. 89 (pages number 461-550) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Harry Merrill Gehman: 1898-1981 by Henry L. Alder / Mathematical Models: A Sketch for the Philosophy of Mathematics by Saunders Mac Lane / Computer Science, Mathematics, and the Undergraduate Curricula in Both by Anthony Ralston / Machiavelli and the Gale-Shapley Algorithm by L. E. Dubins and D. A. Freedman / On the Development of Logics Between the Two World Wars by I. Grattan-Guinness / Polygons, Circulant Matrices, and Moore-Penrose Inverses by Edward T. Wong / Almost-Periodic… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1977. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 80 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Diameters of Arcs and the Gerrymandering Problem by J. C. Oxtoby / The Prodigal Integral by G. R. Sell / Immersions and mod-2 Quadratic Forms by L. H. Kauffman and T. F. Banchoff / The Fifth U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad by S. L. Greitzer / A Constructive Look at Orthonormal Bases in Hilbert Space by D. S. Bridges / On the Existence of Locally Recurrent unctions by M. L. Engquist / Spheres which Look Round All Round are Round by E. H. Kronheimer........." ---- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to -… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1972. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; light glue stain on the rear of the wrapper; former owner's name is in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 98 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "The Formation and Decay of Shock Waves by Peter D. Lax / Infinitesimals by A. H. Lightstone / Fidelity in Mathematical Discourse: Is One and One Really Two? by P. J. Davis / Complete Orthonormal Systems in Pre-Hilbert Spaces by Michael Golomb / Haar Integrals on Topological Rings by James T. Smith......." ---- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1993. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Pink and white wrapper with a black and white illustration on the front and black and pink lettering. 93 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Taxicabs and Sums of Two Cubes / Joseph H. Silverman....The Evil Twin Strategy for a Football Pool / Joseph Destefano, Peter Doyle, and J. Laurie Snell....Six, Lies, and Calculators / R. M. Corless....What Is a Napierian Logarithm? / Raymond Ayoub....The Tyranny of Tests / Peter Hilton....A Really Trivial Proof of the Lucas-Lehmer Test / J. W. Bruce....Pascal's Matrices / Gregory S. Call and Daniel J. Velleman....Symmetries of the Cube and Outer Automorphisms / Thomas A. Fournelle....Isogonal Configurations / Timothy A.… Read More