Halmos, P R (367 results)

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. The item is showing use from the previous owner but works perfectly. Signs of previous ownership which could include: tears, scuffing, notes, excessive highlighting, gift inscriptions, slight water damage, a missing dust jacket, and library markings.

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 6.25 X 9.25 inch. 114 pages. Maroon cloth hardcover with gilt type on spine. Former library book with stickers on cover and stamps on end pages. Internal pages all clean and VG. Second edition printed in 1972.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Purple and white wrapper with purple lettering. 49 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Backlog and You by P. R. Halmos / Factorization and Primality Tests by John D. Dixon / Aitken Sequences and Fibonacci Numbers by G. M. Phillips / A Recursion on Quadruples by Zoltan Magyar / Helly's Theorem with Volumes by I. Barany, M. Katchalski, and Janos Pach / An Alternate Method for Finding the Partial Fraction Decomposition of a Rational Function by H. Joseph Straight and Richard Dowds / Power Series Without Taylor's Theorem by Wells Johnson." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. (Volume 91, Number 6, June-July 1984).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Purple and white wrapper with purple lettering. 47 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Mobius Equivalence and Euclidean Symmetry by J. B. Wilker / Correction to "Very Basic Lie Theory" by Roger Howe / A Probabilistic Proof of the Weierstrass Approximation Theorem by Kenneth M. Levasseur / Duality in the Classroom by Gilbert Strang / A Simple Weierstrass Function by Donald P. Minassian and John W. Gaisser / The Making of Statisicians. Edited by J. Gani by Dennis V. Lindley." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. (Volume 91, Number 4, April 1984).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Purple and white wrapper with purple lettering. 43 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Detection of a Defective Coin with Partial Weight Information by Claude Christen and Frank KI. Hwang / Proof Checking the RSA Public Key Encryption Algorithm by Robert S. Boyer and J Strother Moore / On Two Halves Being Two Wholes by Andrew Simoson / Note on the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem by Marvin Jay Greenberg / A Simple Proof of the Jensen-Steffensen Inequality by Josip E. Pecaric / Multiplicative Analogues of Some Statistics by Ruma Falk." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. (Volume 91, Number 3, March 1984).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Purple and white wrapper with purple lettering. 68 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "A Life in Mathematics Remembered by Angus E. Taylor / Differentiable, Nowhere Analytic Functions by F. S. Cater / A Couple of Cubic Conundrums by Richard K. Guy / Summation of Divergent Series by Computer by Murray Schechter / Bernstein Polynomials via the Shifting Operator by Geng-Zhe Chang / A Theorem Concerning Lorentz Transformations by Frederick Solomon / The Jordan Curve Theorem via the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem by Ryuji Maehara." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. (Volume 91, Number 10, December 1984).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Purple and white wrapper with purple lettering. 63 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Euler by Andre Weil / Trigonometry in Lorentzian Geometry by Graciela S. Birman and Katsumi Nomizu / Riemann-Stieltjes and Lebesgue-Stieltjes Integrability by H. J. Ter Horst / A Pentagonal Pot-Pourri of Perplexing Problems, Primarily Probabilistic by Richard K. Guy / An Elementary Proof That the Hilbert Cube is Compact by Suidney A. Morris / A Partition of the Unit Interval by F. S. Cater / Geometry of Binomial Coefficients by Stephen Wolfram." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. (Volume 91, Number 9, November 1984).

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. **INTERNATIONAL EDITION** Read carefully before purchase: This book is the international edition in mint condition with the different ISBN and book cover design, the major content is printed in full English as same as the original North American edition. The book printed in black and white, generally send in twenty-four hours after the order confirmed. All shipments contain tracking numbers. Great professional textbook selling experience and expedite shipping service.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN temporarily REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Oct. 6 (sale item)* 2nd edition, 114 pp., hardcover, previous owner's name to the front free endpaper, edges lightly foxed, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd. Good book. No DJ. Sticker on inside front cover. Stamp on first page. No other marks in text.

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Book Acceptable. No dust jacket. A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

24 x 16 cm. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. 228 Seiten Problem Books in Mathematics; With 9 Illustrations. Innen sauberer, guter Zustand. Hardcover, Pappeinband, mit den üblichen Bibliotheks-Markierungen, Stempeln und Einträgen, innen wie außen, siehe Bilder. (Evtl. auch Kleber- und/oder Etikettenreste, sowie -abdrücke durch abgelöste Bibliotheksschilder). Untere Buchecken etwas bestoßen. DC-10-2 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 51.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have condition issues including wear and notes/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Good. Princeton paperback. Spine a bit sunned, creased, binding a bit loose. Good condition overall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Red and white wrapper with red and white lettering. 75 (pages 681-756) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Fourier's Method of Linear Programming and Its Dual by H. P. Williams / Musical Scales and the Generalized Circle of Fifths by John Clough and Gerald Myerson / More Trees and Power Sums by James E. Simpson / Questions and Conjectures in Partition Theory by George E. Andrews / An Elementary Approach to the Jordan Form of a Matrix by H. Valiaho / An Application of Finite Difference Algebra by Beda Chan / Finite Linear Groups, the Commodore 64, Euler and Sylvester by David Benson, Walter Feit, and Roger Howe / A Class of Rings Which Are Very Nearly Associative by Erwin Kleinfeld / Successful Remedial Mathematics Programs: Why They Work by Dena Patterson and Tom Sallee / An Easy Generalization of the Riemann Integral by Michael W. Botsko." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Brown and white wrapper with brown lettering. 59 (pages 161-220) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Algebra, Geometry, and Algebraic Geometry: Some Interconnections by Keith M. Kendig / Structuring Mathematical Proofs by Uri Leron / Who Gave You the Epsilon? Cauchy and the Origins of Rigorous Calculus by Judith V. Grabiner / An Olla-Podrida of Open Problems, Often Oddly Posed by Richard K. Guy / Is a Distance One Preserving Mapping Between Metric Spaces Always an Isometry? by Themistocles M. Rassias / Matrices with Integer Entries and Integer Eigenvalues by J. C. Renaud / A Short Proof of the Variational Principle for Approximate Solutions of a Minimization Problem by J. B. Hiriart-Urruty." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Brown and white wrapper with brown lettering. 71 (pages 661-732) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Author vs. Referee: A Case History for Middle Level Mathematicians by Robert C. Thompson / Large Numbers and Unprovable Theorems by Joel Spencer / Functions Which Parametrize Means by Michael E. Mays / Applications of a Result on Spherical Integration to the Theory of Convex Sets by K. J. Falconer / Iterating the Derived Set Function by Denis Higgs / Cross Products of Vectors in Higher Dimensional Euclidean Spaces by W. S. Massey / A 'Counterexample' for the Schwarz-Christoffel Transform by Elgin Johnston." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Red and white wrapper with red and white lettering. 81 (pages 333-414) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Shuffling Cards and Stopping Times by David Aldous and Persi Diaconis / What is a Differential? A New Answer from the Generalized Riemann Integral by Solomon Leader / Transformations Leaving the Determinant of Circulant Matrices Invariant by Alan C. Wilde / Approximating Polygons for Lebesgue's and Schoenberg's Space Filling Curves by Hans Sagan." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Red and white wrapper with red and white lettering. 71 (pages 765-836) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Crystallography and Cohomology of Groups by Howard Hiller / The Partial Order of Iterated Exponentials by Barry W. Brunson / The Laplace Transform Inversion by Inspection by Abraham Ungar / Progress Reports: Points of Finite Order on Elliptic Curves by Joseph H. Silverman / Unsolved Problems: The Shortest Curve That Meets All the Lines That Meet a Convex Body by V. Faber and J. Mycielski." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Red and white wrapper with red and white lettering. 79 (pages 245-324) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Award for Distinguished Service to Professor Arnold Ephram Ross by Anneli Lax and Alan C. Woods / Harmonic Functions from a Complex Analysis Viewpoint by Sheldon Axler / Numerical Geometry ---- Numbers for Shapes by Joan Cleary, Sidney A. Morris, and David Yost / Sums of Three Squares and Levels of Quadratic Number Fields by Charles Small." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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; spine is gently creased; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Red and white wrapper with red lettering. 83 (pages number 421-504) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "An Algorithm for Solving Polynomial Equations by Sylvan Burgstahler / A Stochastic Characterization of the Sine Function by Benjamin Kedem / Commutators and Their Products by I. D. MacDonald / A Variation on the Landau Problem by R. Farwig and D. Zwick / A Quick Route to Sums of Powers by A. W. F. Edwards.".and many other features and articles of interest! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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; former owner's name is written in ink on the front of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Red and white wrapper with red and white lettering. 88 (pages 1-88) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Let's Meet at the Congress by Yousef Alavi, Peter Hilton, and Jean Pedersen / A Conjectured Analogue of Rolie's Theorem for Polynomials with Real or Complex Coefficients by I. J. Schoenberg / The Interval of Convergence and Limiting Functions of a Hyperpower Sequence by J. M. de Villiers and P. N. Robinson / A Simple Derivation of Stirling's Asymptotic Series by Victor Namias / 21 - 6 = 15: A Connection Between Two Distinguished Geometries by Albrecht Beutelspacher." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Red and white wrapper with red and white lettering. 87 (pages number 157-244) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Cubelike Puzzles ---- What Are They and How Do You Solve Them? by J. A. Eidswick / An Alternative Approach to Canonical Forms of Matrices by E. J. P. Georg Schmidt / The Teaching of Mathematics On Caterpillars, Trees, and Stochastic Processes by John C. Turner / The Teaching of Mathematics Why Square Roots Are Irrational by William C. Waterhouse." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Red and white wrapper with red and white lettering. 67 (pages 89-156) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Some Consequences of the Sturm Comparison Theorem by Andrea LaForgia and Martin E. Muldoon / A Geometric Derivation of the Distribution of the Correlation Coefficient [r] when p = 0 by William A. Chance / Polya's Orchard Problem by Thomas Tracy Allen / Cyclic Relative Difference Sets by Philip A. Leonard / On "cosF(x) = F(sinX)" by T. L. McCoy / Designing Buffon's Needle for a Given Crossing Distribution by Jack M. Robertson and Andrew F. Siegel." ---- and many many other articles and essays of interest. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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! Orange and white wrapper with white and orange lettering. 78 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "How to Beat Your Wythoff Games' Opponent on Three Fronts by Aviezri S. Fraenkel / Calculus is Algebra by William S. Hatcher / Any New Helly Numbers? by Edwin O. Buchman and Frederick A. Valentine / Radon Inversion ---- Variations on a Theme by Robert S. Strichartz / Meaning and Information in Constructive Mathematics by Fred Richman." ----- and many other features and articles of interest! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.