Elements Mathematics, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. 1962 Pergamon Press hardcover, SIGNED by the Author, no dj, with some shelfwear/edgewear, GOOD Standard-sized.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Textbook by the professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. May was instrumental in the formation of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics, which awards the Kenneth O. May Prize for outstanding contributions. Bumped and rubbed with foxing to the upper edge of the text block, binding square and solid. Signed by May on the title page. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First separate edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. Signed on front wrapper: 'Regards of the author/J.C.C. McKinsey'. 'McKinsey received B.S. and M.S. degrees from New York University and a Ph.D. degree in 1936 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Blumenthal Research Fellow at New York University from 1936 to 1937 and a Guggenheim Fellow from 1942 to 1943. He also taught at Montana State College, and in Nevada, then Oklahoma, and in 1947 he went 'to a research group at Douglas Aircraft Corporation' that later became the RAND Corporation. McKinsey worked at RAND until he was fired in 1951. The FBI considered him a security risk because he was a homosexual, in spite of the fact that he was an open homosexual who had been in a committed relationship for years. He complained to his superior 'How can anyone threaten me with disclosure when everybody already knows?' From 1951 he taught at Stanford University, where he was later appointed a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy, where he worked with Patrick Suppes on the axiomatic foundations of classical mechanics. He committed suicide at his home in Palo Alto in 1953' (Wikipedia). Signed by Author(s).