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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Green and white wrapper with white and green lettering. 79 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Award for Distinguished Service to Professor Ralph P. Boas, Jr. by Saunders Mac Lane Award of the Chauvenet Prize to Professor Kenneth I. Gross by David P. Roselle The Geometry of Root Systems and Signed Graphs by Thomas Zaslavsky Planes, Biplanes, and Their Codes by Chester J. Salwach Some Historical Remarks Concerning Degree Theory by Hans Willi Siegberg Characterization of Classes of Functions by R. Creighton Buck On Modular Group Rings, Normal Bases, and Fixed Points by Lindsay N. Childs and Morris Orzech Sequences of Polyhedra by L. Fejes Toth".and many other features and articles of interest! (Volume 88, Number 2, February 1981).…

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; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Purple and white wrapper with white and purple lettering. 87 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Constructing Buffon Curves from Their Distributions by Duane DeTemple and Jack M. Robertson Increasing the Participation of Women in Fields That Use Mathematics by Lenore Blum and Steven Givant Teaching Problem-Solving Skills by Alan H. Schoenfeld The Formula of Faa di Bruno by Steven Roman Burnside's Theorem on Algebras of Matrices by Israel Halperin and Peter Rosenthal The Countability of the Rational Polynomials: A Direct Method by Alan Frank Overlapping Congruent Convex Bodies by James W. Fickett Functions with Arbitrarily Small Periods by J. M. Henle Rearranging the Alternating Harmonic Series by C. C. Cowen, K. R. Davidson, and R. P. Kaufman A Strong Converse to Gauss's Mean-Value Theorem by R. B. Burckel Mathematics Beyond the Classroom: The Newsletter Approach By Sabra S. Anderson Solutions of Problems Dedicated to Emory P. Starke".and many other features and articles of interest! (Volume 87, Number 10, December 1980).…

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; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Green and white wrapper with white and green lettering. 71 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Can We Make Mathematics Intelligible? by R. P. Boas A Permanent Inequality by Donald E. Knuth Cauchy's Theorem by Geoffrey C. Berresford The Hilbert Model of Hyperbolic Geometry by Heinrich Guggenheimer The Impossibility of Tiling a Convex Region with Unequal Equilateral Triangles by Edwin Buchman A Note on Golomb's "Cyclotomic Polynomials and Factorization Theorems" By Katherine E. McLain and Hugh M. Edgar On Functions That Are Monotone on No Interval by Tibor Salat Research Problems Become Unsolved problems by Richard K. Guy More on Similarity of Matrices by Richard A. Davis".and many other features and articles of interest! (Volume 88, Number 10, December 1981).…

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; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Green and white wrapper with white and green lettering. 73 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Exponentials Reiterated by R. Arthur Knoebel Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra by J. L. Brenner and R. C. Lyndon The First Proof of the Quadratic Reciprocity Law, Revisited by Ezra Brown An Elementary Proof of the No-Retraction Theorem by Yakar Kannai Eisenstein Reciprocity and nth-Power Residues by James Kraft and Michael Rosen An Easy Proof of the Triple-Product Identity by John A. Ewell Occurrences of Consecutive Odd Powerful Numbers by W. A. Sentance Note on an Integral Inequality of Ky Fan and G. G. Lorentz by Josip E. Pecaric Shifted-Prime Factorizations by Kenneth H. Rosen Fanout-Free Functions by Edward A. Bender and E. Rodney Canfield An Alternative to Euclid's Algorithm by Daniel A. Marcus Constructing Loops from Groups by Arthur H. Copeland, Jr., and Albert O. Shar New Angles on an Old Game by G. J. Porter Translation Difficulties in Learning Mathematics by John Clement, Jack Lochhead, and George S. Monk".and many other features and articles of interest! (Volume 88, Number 4, April 1981).…

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; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Green and white wrapper with white and green lettering. 73 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Abel's Theorem on the Lemniscate by Michael Rosen Iterating Analytic Self-Maps of Discs by R. B. Burckel Rigid Motions of Conics: An Introduction to Invariant Theory by Frank D. Grosshans Women and Mathematics: Fact and Fiction by Edith H. Luchins The Geometry of Rolling Curves by John Bloom and Lee Whitt Stochastic Independence and Space-Filling Curves by John A. R. Holbrook Twenty Years Later: High School Students Who Showed Promise in Mathematics by Nura D. Turner Homeomorphisms of Cubes into Euclidean Spaces by Y. Sternfeld Modified Convergence of Taylor Series by Robert D. Small Equivalence of an Identity in Vector Analysis to Quaternion Associativity, and Ramifications by Andrew Sobczyk".and many other features and articles of interest! (Volume 88, Number 6, June-July 1981).…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL articles disbound from journal; no covers; in very good condition. Journal.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Meets or exceeds the good condition guidelines. Nice copy. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Condition: Good. Mathematical Association of America, 1978. This Book is in Good Condition. General light wear to covers with moderate bumping to bottom corner, mailing label on rear flap, text is clean with no marks, binding tight. Not Ex-Library or Remaindered. 100% Guaranteed. paperback. Good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. xviii, 553 pp. Pencil underlining and notes on c. 10 pages. The binding is tight and square.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Unmarked text. Phone numbers on back end page. Soft corner crease on back cover. Illustrated. In the famous paper of 1938, 'A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Big Game Hunting', written by Ralph Boas along with Frank Smithies, using the pseudonym H. W. O. Petard, Boas describes sixteen methods for hunting a lion. This marvelous collection of Boas memorabilia contains not only the original article, but also several additional articles, as late as 1985, giving many further methods. 308p. …

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. ex-library hardcover with usual stamps and markings This is a damaged book. May be ex-library, water-damaged, or spine creased/broken. Acceptable, Reading copy only, with writing/markings and heavy wear. Standard-sized.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Journal Offprint. 11 page journal article. Minor fading/marks. Paper.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedVeryGood. Hardcover; second impression of a 1960 copyright; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; former owner's name written on front endpaper; otherwise contents in very good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Good plus or better, light general wear, top corners bumped. Cloth Sunned spine and edges. Pages lightly browned. Prev owner's name inside front cover.

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! Purple and white wrapper with purple and white lettering. 81 (pages number 161-242) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Offbeat Integral Geometry by Lawrence Zalcman / Infinitesimal Demformations of Portions of the Standard Sphere in E by David D. Bleecker / Positive Temperatures with Prescribed by Initial Heat Distributions by Calvin H. Wilcox / Circular Priorities in Secured Transactions by Alan L. Tyree / Plancherel's Theorem and the Shannon Series Derived Simultaneously by Antonio Steiner / Quadrangles, Butterflies, Pascal's Hexagon and Projective Fixed Points by Dixon Jones / The Retrial of the Lower Slobbovian Counterfeiters by Michael Hendy / Cayley's Theorem for Topological Groups by Eric C. Nummela / Regions of Harmonicity by I. Netuka and J. Vesely / A Postage Stamp Problem by Ronald Alter and Jeffrey A. Barnett / Derivation of the Gibbs Phenomenon by David Shelupsky." ---- 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! Green and white wrapper with green and white lettering. 75 (pages number 311-386) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Are There Coincidences in Mathematics? by Philip J. Davis / Elementary Characterization of Classical Minima by W. Hrusa and J. L. Troutman / Cayley's Version of the Resultant of Two Polynomials by H. B. Griffiths / Corrections to 'Cyclotomic Polynomials and Factorization Theorems' by Solomon W. Golomb / Fat, Symmetric, Irrational Cantor Sets by Duane Boes, Richard Darst, and Paul Erdos / On the Monotonicity of a Class of Exponential Sequences by Thomas P. Dence / Polynomials in Two Variables Taking Distinct Integer Values at Lattice-Points by John S. Lew." ---- 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; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Purple and white wrapper with white and purple lettering. 85 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Simple Analytic Proof of the Prime Number Theorem by D. J. Newman / The Philosophical Implications of the Four-Color Problem by E. R. Swart / Formulae for the Curvatures of Circles in Chains by M. D. Fox / Foursomes, Fivesomes, and Orgies, or Upon Reading Poems by Frederick Soddy by Ray Bobo / Robbins's Theorem for Mixed Multigraphs by Frank Boesch and Ralph Tindell / Iterated Binomial Coefficients by Solomon W. Golomb / An Elementary Approach to Jordan Theory by A. Galperin and Z. Waksman." ----- 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; 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! Purple and white wrapper with white and purple lettering. 87 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "The Heart of Mathematics by P. R. Halmos / A Less Strange Version of Milnor's Proof of Brouwer's Fixed-Point Theorem by C. A. Rogers / On the Development of Optimization Theory by Andras Prekopa / Roots of Polynomials in Algebraic Extensions of Fields by I. M. Isaacs / The Power and Generalized Logarithmic Means by Kenneth B. Stolarsky." ----- 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; 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! Purple and white wrapper with white and purple lettering. 85 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "The Mathematical Sciences and World War II by Mina Rees / The Dirichlet Problem for Harmonic Functions by Ivan Netuka / An Extension of Egorov's Theorem by Robert G. Bartle / The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition by L. F. Klosinski, G. L. Alwxanderson, A. P. Hillman / How to Cut a Cake Fairly by Walter Stromquist." ----- 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; 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! Purple and white wrapper with white and purple lettering. 91 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Calculator Calculus and Roundoff Errors by George Miel / Euler's Version of the Laplace Transform by Michael A. B. Deakin / Twisted Prismatic Klein Bottles by Carlo H. Sequin / Dispersion Points and Fixed Points by J. Cobb and W. Voxman / The Connection Between lim sup and Uniform Integrability by Richard B. Darst." ----- 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; 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! Purple and white wrapper with white and purple lettering. 78 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Logarithms! by N. David Mermin / On a Hyperanalytic Geometry for Complex Functions by Malcolm Murrill / A 'Natural' Enumeration of Non-negative Rational Numbers ---- An Informal Discussion by Shen Yu-Ting / The Eighth U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad by Samuel L. Greitzer / Correction and Addendum to 'Evolution of the Topological Concept of 'Connected' by R. L. Wilder." ----- 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; 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! Purple and white wrapper with a black and white illustration on the front and purple and white lettering. 91 (pages 427-518) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white diagrams! Contents include: "National Assessment of Educational Progress by Shirley A. Hill / The State of Mathematics in Our Schools by Martha Zelinka / Modern Multiplier Rules by B. H. Pourciau / Total Torsion by Michael A. Penna / Analysis of MODE: Math Opens Doors Everywhere by Eileen L. Poiani / A Simple Application of the Theorem of Composition of Accelerations by S. N. Maitra". and many other features and articles of interest! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. (1972), 196pp, blue cloth, 'The Carus Mathematical Monographs, No. 13', slight soiling & shelfwear to cover, slight darkening to spine, binding slightly cocked, light foxing to eps & pg edges, no dj, contents clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 190 pages. Ex-college library marks, light discoloring and wear; a sound binding; good shape. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Mathematics; Inventory No: 232449.

gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 65 Seiten; Der Erhaltungszustand des hier angebotenen Werks ist trotz seiner Bibliotheksnutzung sehr sauber. Es befindet sich neben dem Rückenschild lediglich ein Bibliotheksstempel im Buch; ordnungsgemäß entwidmet. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 230.…

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