On the Distribution of Errors in N th Tabular Differences (inscribed)

Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1939. INSCRIBED on the front cover: "With the compliments of A. N. Lowan" and in a different hand: "To TRH" [i.e. Temple Rice Hollcroft]. Very Good condition. Light cover wear/soil. Pages are clean and unmarked. Reprinted from The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 10, No. 4, December 1939. This is the original 1939 publication -- NOT print on demand edition or modern reprint. Bound in the original wraps, stamped in black. This volume was among several dozen books from Temple Rice Hollcroft's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. The American mathematician Temple Rice Hollcroft (1889 - 1967) received B.S. in 1912 and A.B. in 1914 from Hanover College and then A.M. in 1915 from the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in 1917 from Cornell University under Virgil Snyder. Hollcroft was a mathematics professor at Wells College from 1918 to 1954, from which he retired as professor emeritus. Hollcroft served for 14 years as Associate Secretary of the American Mathematical Society. In 1932 in Zurich he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematician (ICM). His subject was THE GENERAL WEB OF SURFACES AND THE SPACE INVOLUTION DEFINED BY IT. Being invited to talk at the ICM has been called "the equivalent of induction to a hall of fame." - from Wikipedia. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by A. N. Lowan. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. pp. [359] - 364. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…