Magic Numbers by Eric Temple Bell (13 results)

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: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback, minor traces of use, a (very) good copy. Text in English. Please see description or ask for photos.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Ed. Dover, New York - 1991, in-8, broché, 418 pages Bon état - Pour les envois hors de France, la tafication «livre & brochure» pour les frais de port a disparue.Les frais de port annoncés correspondent à une moyenne. Ils seront calculés au plus juste en fonction du poids de votre article.

Condition: Good. 1946. Second printing. 418 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth covered boards. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor inscriptions to front endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine. …

Condition: Very Good. 1946. Hardback. Good clean copy with minor age & shelfwear. Lacking dj, remains very good. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1946. Hardback. Good clean copy with minor age & shelfwear. Lacking dj, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dover Publications, USA, 1991. Texto en inglés. VIII + 418 pp. 21 x 14. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Buen estado de conservación. ISBN: 9780486267883.

Hard Cover Maroon Suede Guilt. Condition: New. No Jacket. Deluxe Hardcover Facsimile Edition Priva. Exact Facsimile Reprint of Original Edition Published: 1946. 418p. AnExcellent Dissertation on the Esoteric Aspect of Numbers Looked at fromthe Pythagorean Perspective with a Cosmological Orientation. DetailedCoverage of the History and Meaning of Pythagorean & Platonic Number in aDetail not Usually Found In These Books. Contents: The Past Returns; RoyalMace; Decisive Century; One or Many; Discord & Harmony; MythologyTransformed; Cosmos As Number; Intimations of the Infinite; Politics &Geometry; Number Defined. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, MD. 1933. First edition, first printing with 1933 printed on the title page and no further printings listed on the copyright page. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are sound. Light shelf-rubbing along tips. Slight sunning to orange hue on backstrip. Previous owner's name and date on upper right corner of FFEP. Endpapers show minor light soiling. Small vintage droplet stain near bottom corner of first couple of pages. Bell, a celebrated mathematician, and historian, is best known for his contributions to patterns and Number theory, Bell series, Bell polynomials, Bell numbers, Bell triangle, Ordered Bell numbers and being the 1924 recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize. Here, however, is his classic 1933 text on the ancient art of Numerology, and how to decipher the hidden symbolism of numbers, and the significance of their predictable nature, once decoded. Long considered a pioneering text in the study of Numerology, this text has gone on to multiple printings, however this is the uncommon, original first edition, first printing, from 1933. VG.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. RARE signed book on numerology by famous mathematician and author Eric Temple Bell (haven't seen a signed copy of this ever come up for sale before) known by the pseudonym John Taine for his science fiction novels. Flat signed by author on the FFEP with a very curious inscription! Condition: GOOD/VERY GOOD ABOUT THE BOOK This is a tongue-in-cheek, humorous history of Numerology and its practice with some mathematics thrown in for good measure. Published in 1945 by United Book Guild in New York. First edition thus, first printing: in original cloth boards with black spine lettering. Octavo. With its original dust jacket. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eric Temple Bell (February 1883 - December 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician, educator and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. Bell was part of the faculty first at the University of Washington and later at the California Institute of Technology. While at the University of Washington, he taught Howard P. Robertson and encouraged him to enroll at Caltech for his doctoral studies. Bell researched number theory; see in particular Bell series. He is the eponym of the Bell polynomials and the Bell numbers of combinatorics. In 1924 Bell was awarded the B cher Memorial Prize for his work in mathematical analysis. In 1927, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1937. He also wrote several science fiction novels by the pseudonym John Taine, which independently invented some of the earliest devices and ideas of science fiction. Bell wrote a book of biographical essays titled Men of Mathematics which inspired notable mathematicians including Julia Robinson, John Forbes Nash, Jr., and Andrew Wiles to begin careers in mathematics. His book on Fermat's Last Theorem, The Last Problem, was published the year after his death and is a hybrid of social history and the history of mathematics. It inspired mathematician Andrew Wiles to solve the problem. CONDITION REPORT The book is in GOOD condition. Clean, unfaded cloth with a spot or two. Tight binding. Rubbing to extremities. Several pages with marginalia and some highlighting. Some creasing, bent corners and some smudges and stains. The unclipped dust jacket is VERY GOOD - some dust soiling (particularly on rear panel) and edge wear - chipping, small tears and some creases. A larger chip from head of spine. Overall, a rare SIGNED copy.. Signed by Author(s).…