Search Results: Mathematics from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Paris: Firmin Didot. Very Good. 1831. Priemiere Part. 258 pp with 1 fold-out chart of figures. Edge and corners sl worn, sl foxing, contents bright and tight. Fourier (1768-1830) . was a distinguished mathematician and physicist who was active in the French Revolution and went with Bonaparte on his Egyptian expedition in 1798. This first edition of Fourier's work on the theory of equations was published in 1831 after his death by Claude-Louis Navier. it contains much original matter, including a demonstration of Fourier's theorem on the position of the roots of an algebraic equation. Fourier is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect involved with global warming. .

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. G. (1906). Red binding, gilt letteringon spine, binding darkened, edge wear, owner name. .

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Navy Dept Hydrographic. VG. 1943. 3rd ed. Black binding, yellow lettering & outlining, owner name, business stamp ft endpaper. Tabs. .

Leipzig: Teubner. Very good. 1898. 669 pp with 2 pages of ads, buckram with marbled 1/2 boards, sl edge and spine wear. .

Halle: Schmidt. Good. 1855. Wear to leather corners, spine and edges, book is tight and contents bright. .

Leipzig: Teubner. Good. 1896. 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards, piece loose on spine, cover rubbed, corners and edges sl worn, contents tight/bright .

NY: Wiley. VG. (1942). 2nd ed. Owner bookplate fep. .

NY: McGraw Hill. VG in Fair DJ. 1950. Collection of 17 papers. Red binding, gilt lettering. DJ chunk missing at top. .

NY: Barnes. G. 1870. Owner name and notations, some ink spots, beginning and ending flyleaves missing, leather backstrap quite worn, edge wear. . Worn but tight. .

Paris: Duprat. Very Good. AN VII (1799). 2nd. Edges and corners worn, contents tight and bright. Laplace's famouns work - classic history of astronomy on the origin and . formation of the solar system. One of the most successful popularizations of science every composed. Five books (livre) contained in one volume. .

Boston: Ginn. G. 1916. Black binding, red lettering. Few spots on binding. .

Princeton, NJ: Robinson. Very good. 1902. Gauss, a noted German mathematician (1777-1855) presented to the Royal Society of Gottingen his important paper on the theory . of surfaces, described as one of the most finished and useful introductions to the study of infinitesimal geometry. The original draft of the paper was done in 1825, with refinements in 1827. Sl wear to corners and spine, o/w a clean and bright copy. Princeton University Library. .

Paris: Klostermann. Good. 1812. Two volumes in one book containing both Monge's first 9 1lectures (132 pp and 25 fold-out plates) and Hachette's Supple . ment with additional lectures (120 pp plus 11 fold-out plates). Edge, spine and corner wear. Handwritten note in French commenting on text loosely inserted at page 100. Owner's notation in pencil fep "The work which created descriptive geometry". Monge (1746-1818) was a professor at the Ecole Normale de l'An III in Paris in1795 and presented a series of 13 lectures on descriptive geometry to students in training to be secondary school teachers. Monge was called one of the most original mathematicians of his age. Hachette (1769-1834) was an eminent mathematician and engineer, and was Monge's assistant compiling his 1795 lecture notes, and prepared the supplement with the lectures not included in the original 1799 work with Monge's first 9 lectures (pub Baudouin, Paris, AN VII (1799)). .

Leipzig: Teubner. Good. nd. Volume II A 1 from the Encyklopadie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften mit einschluss ihrer anwendungen (Encyclopedia . of Mathematical Sciences). Corner bumped, spine sl worn, covers sl soiled. .

Washington, D.C.: Mathematical Assn of America. VG lg sz PB. (1994). 1st ptg. In 1979 Howard Eves retired from the Univ. of Maine at Orono. .

Paris: Gauthier-Villars. Very good. 1905, 1910. 1/2 red leather binding with marbled boards, sl edge and corner wear, contents bright and tight. Vol I has 365 pp and Vol III . has 472 pp including 2 fold-out pages with maps. The work is fundamental to celestial mechanics. Poincare was one of the greatest mathematical minds of the 19th century, his work on the "three boy problem" (the gravitational interplay of three masses) leads some to credit him as a co-discoverer of the special theory of relativity, along with Einstein and Lorentz (Baskingstoke, HAM, UK). .

NY: G. E. Stechert & Co. VG. 1946. Reprint. Bottom corners bumped, smudge on ft binding. .

Braunschweig: Vieweg. Very good. 1896. 3/4 leather with gilt lettering on spine, wear to corners and edges, tight and clean copy. .

np: Braunschweig. G. 1924. Green binding, silver lettering. Binding worn, back hinge cracked. .

NY: Freeman. VG lg sz PB. (1988). 6th ptg. Frontiers of contemporary mathematics, full of unanswered questions. .