Midonick henrietta ed (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. xxi, 1 leaf [half title], 820 pp. Original cloth. Very Good, in worn dust jacket (but the front flap of the dust jacket is not price-clipped). First British Edition (originally published in the same year, 1965, by Philosophical Library in New York). "Translates into English, some for the first time, excerpts from published works. Covers antiquity (including Eastern) to C. S. Peirce, G. Cantor, and G. Frege" (Dauben, The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present, no. 53).…

2 volumes, 18 × 11 cm, paperbacks, 416 pages & 416 pages, text in English, foot of spine volume 2 slightly damaged, paper browned, otherwise in very good condition, see picture. A sourcebook of mathematical writings with biographical and historical introductions, revised by Matina and Reginald Vesey. Volume 1 covers 'The Beginnings' and 'Mathematics from the East', including selections from Babylonian tablets, Egyptian papyri, Greek mathematics, and Indian and Chinese sources. Volume 2 deals with 'Further Development' and 'Algebraic Geometry and Calculus', featuring works from Diophantus, Ptolemy, al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Viète, Descartes, Fermat, and others. 560g.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xxi, 820p. Corners worn. Ex-library.