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Published by Princeton, Princeton University Press / London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1952, 1952
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
, Widder, David Vernon, 1898-1990. The Laplace transform. Princeton, Princeton University Press / London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1952, 3d printing, x, 406pp., fair dust-jacket, chipped, worn, and wrinkled, very good brown cloth, faded at two spots where jacket is torn. Princeton mathematical series, 6. First published in 1941 based on lectures at Harvard on Dirichlet series and Laplace integrals. The author expresses gratitude in the preface to G. H. Hardy whose 1928 lectures at Princeton aroused his interest in the topic. The Laplace Transform (1941) and the Convolution Transform (1955, with I. I. Hirschman) had applications to physics, which Widder detailed in The Heat Equation (Academic Press, 1975). Widder was one of the young mathematicians at Harvard in the 1940s who oversaw the shift from geometry to algebra, which blossomed, however, only in the 1950s with the arrival of John Tate, Oscar Zariski, and Richard Brauer.
Published by Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1941 [1959]., 1959
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, fifth printing. 406 pp. Original cloth. Ink signature stamp of former owner (Paul A. Willis) on each dust jacket flap and front pastedown. A few small, neat ink check marks in margins of bibliography. Else Very Good+, in very good dust jacket (spine stained, unclipped). 'Early on he noted the close analogy between the Laplace transform and Dirichlet series, which enabled him to combine insights from both areas. His early work culminated in a noteworthy monograph entitled The Laplace Transform, published in 1941, and still regarded as the best introduction to the subject' ('FAS Memorial Minute: David V. Widder', Harvard Gazette, Dec. 11, 1997).
Published by Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1941., 1941
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Presentation copy of the First Edition, inscribed by Widder to his Harvard colleague, Saunders MacLane. 406 pp. Original cloth. Very Good, without dust jacket. 'Early on he noted the close analogy between the Laplace transform and Dirichlet series, which enabled him to combine insights from both areas. His early work culminated in a noteworthy monograph entitled The Laplace Transform, published in 1941, and still regarded as the best introduction to the subject' ('FAS Memorial Minute: David V. Widder', Harvard Gazette, Dec. 11, 1997). Signed by Author(s).