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Boston: Birkhauser. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1998. First English Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0817659544 . Operator Theory Advances & Applications #104; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 201 pages; Only slight wear. A tight bright book. Unmarked text. This volume, dedicated to Carl Pearcy on the occasion of his 60th birthday, presents recent results in operator theory, nonselfadjoint operator algebras, measure theory and the theory of moments. The articles on these subjects have been contributed by leading area experts, many of whom were associated with Carl Pearcy as students or collaborators. The book testifies to his multifaceted interests and includes a biographical sketch and a list of publications. .

Dordrecht, Netherlands: D. Reidel Publishing Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 9027718725 . Illustrated boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, text unmarked.; 9.2 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 388 pages .

New York: St Martins Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 031214380X . DJ is price-clipped, otherwise near-fine. ; A bright, solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 586 pages; "The fourty-seven essays in The Night Is Large have been culled by Gardner from the broad scope of his career, and form the most ambitious collection he has ever attempted. Ranging from philosophy to religion, mathematics to pseudoscience, these challenging, coruscating musings - each with a new introduction - represent Gardner at his skeptical best." .

American Mathematical Society. Near Fine. 2005. Paperback. 0821835335 . As new in shrink wrap; Trade PB; Contemporary Mathematics; 0.75 x 10 x 7 Inches; 323 pages; Many well-known mathematicians attended the events & submitted their contributions for this volume. Eighteen papers comprise this work, representing the most significant advances and current trends in nonlinear PDEs & their applications. Topics covered include elliptic & parabolic equations, Navier Stokes equations, & hyperbolic conservation laws. Important applications are presented from incompressible and compressible fluid mechanics, combustion, and electromagnetism.Also included are articles on recent advances in statistical reliability in modeling, simulation, level set methods for image processing, shock waves, free boundaries, boundary layers, errors in numerical solutions, stability, instability, & singular limits. The volume is suitable for researchers & graduate students interested in partial… Leer más

New York: Springer-Verlag. Near Fine. 1990. First English Edition. Softcover. 0387506284 . Yellow card covers, book as new ; A bright, solid book, text unmarked; Universitext; 9.40 X 6.40 X 0.80 inches; 277 pages; "Bridging the gap between elementary courses and the research literature in this field, the book covers the basic concepts necessary to study differential equations. Stability theory is developed, starting with linearisation methods going back to Lyapunov and Poincaré, before moving on to the global direct method. The Poincaré-Lindstedt method is introduced to approximate periodic solutions, while at the same time proving existence by the implicit function theorem. The final part covers relaxation oscillations, bifurcation theory, centre manifolds, chaos in mappings and differential equations, and Hamiltonian systems. The subject material is presented from both the qualitative and the quantitative point of view, with many examples to illustrate the theory,… Leer más

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Near Fine. 2007. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0691148228 . A bright, solid book. DJ is clean and crisp. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 196 pages; "Math--the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions--usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes--conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true. Did you know that a losing sports team can become a winning one by adding worse players than its opponents? Or that the thirteenth of the month is more likely to be a Friday than any other day? Or that cones can roll unaided uphill? In Nonplussed!--a delightfully eclectic collection of paradoxes from many different areas of math--popular-math writer Julian Havil reveals the math that shows the truth of these and many other unbelievable ideas." .

New York: Oxford University Press. Very Good+. 1995. Softcover. 0198534604 . Only slight wear to card covers ; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; Oxford Science Publications; B&W Illustrations; 9.10 X 6.10 X 0.80 inches; 308 pages; Numbers and Shapes Revisited is the ideal guide for high school and undergraduate students seeking to understand the connections between the wide range of mathematical methods and concepts that they may come across in their curriculum. Topics include elementary number theory, classical algebra, euclidean geometry, group theory, and combinatorics. Stimulating and enjoyable, the book will promote independent thinking and the ability to pose and answer questions. .

Toronto: Emblem Editions. Very Good+. 2010. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0771016972 . card covers show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, card covers are crisp and clean, text unmarked.; 7.90 X 5.20 X 0.70 inches; 290 pages .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 0521857015 . A bright, solid book, grey glossy boards as new, text unmarked ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 247 pages; "This book explains recent results in the theory of moving frames that concern the symbolic manipulation of invariants of Lie group actions. In particular, theorems concerning the calculation of generators of algebras of differential invariants, and the relations they satisfy, are discussed in detail. The author demonstrates how new ideas lead to significant progress in two main applications: the solution of invariant ordinary differential equations and the structure of Euler-Lagrange equations and conservation laws of variational problems. The expository language used here is primarily that of undergraduate calculus rather than differential geometry, making the topic more accessible to a student audience. More sophisticated ideas from differential topology and Lie… Leer más

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Editor; Grey cloth boards show very light shelf wear. DJ shows some shelf wear, with small tears and light chipping to edges. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped, text unmarked. Author has signed the title page, and added a dated inscription to his aunt on the FFEP. Text in English and Latin ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 298 pages; Hughes provides a modern translation from Latin of Johann Muller (Regiomontanus)'s work on triangles with Latin text on left hand page and English text on the right. .

New York: Dover Publications. Very Good. 1951. Reprint. Softcover. 0486200043 . Card covers show some shelf wear.; A tight, solid book, text unmarked.; 8.30 X 5.10 X 1.40 inches; 982 pages; This is a reprint of the 2nd edition .

West Sussex, England: Ellis Horwood Ltd. Very Good+. 1992. Second Edition. Softcover. 0138553211 . Card covers show very light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book, card covers are clean and crisp , text unmarked.; Mathematics and Its Applications ; 9.75 X 6.75 X 0.50 inches; 222 pages; "This text examines the topology of compact surfaces through the development of some simple ideas in place geometry, an approach which allows a treatment of an area of mathematics that is particularly attractive both for the richness of its applications, and for the variety of its interactions with other branches of mathematics. A wide variety of topics are linked with surface topology, such as graph theory, group theory, vector field theory and plane Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. Each topic is treated from its beginnings, thus offering a bird's eye view of many branches of mathematics. The author's introductions are presented in simple terms and, for those who wish to extend their… Leer más

New York: Plenum Press. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1974. 1st Thus. Hardcover. 0306307596 . DJ and boards show some shelf wear, top corners bumped, 1/4" piece missing from DJ at top of spine area. Small tears and light chipping, damp stain top DJ spine. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, text unmarked. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.60 X 6.40 X 1.50 inches; 420 pages; "The perception of symmetry in art and in nature has been appreciated since antiquity, with development of the underlying laws tracing back at least to Pythagorean times. By the end of the eighteenth century it was realized that the immense variety of natural crystal shapes could be accounted for on the basis of a rather small number of symmetry operations, of which some were equally applicable to biological systems. The mathematical theory of symmetry continued to mature throughout the last century, culminating in the independent discoveries in Russia, Germany, and England that a total… Leer más

Basel, SW: Birkhäuser. Near Fine. 2011. Reprint. Softcover. 3034801033 . A bright, solid book, card covers are clean and crisp, text unmarked. ; Modern Birkhäuser Classics; 9.25 X 6.10 X 0.81 inches; 341 pages; "The discoveries of the last decades have opened new perspectives for the old field of Hamiltonian systems and led to the creation of a new field: symplectic topology. Surprising rigidity phenomena demonstrate that the nature of symplectic mappings is very different from that of volume preserving mappings. This raises new questions, many of them still unanswered. On the other hand, analysis of an old variational principle in classical mechanics has established global periodic phenomena in Hamiltonian systems. As it turns out, these seemingly different phenomena are mysteriously related. One of the links is a class of symplectic invariants, called symplectic capacities. These invariants are the main theme of this book, which includes such topics as basic symplectic… Leer más

Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Corners lightly bumped; A tight solid book. ; American Mathematical Society Translations Series 2, Volume 71 ; 236 pages; Mathematical papers by 15 Russian mathematicians .

New York: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine. 2007. Reprint. Softcover. 0521037603 . A bright, solid book , text unmarked. Card covers are clean and crisp. ; 8.80 X 5.90 X 0.50 inches; 272 pages; "This book is about the methods used for unifying different scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The process has characterized much of the history of science and is prominent in contemporary physics; the search for a "theory of everything" involves the same attempt at unification. Margaret Morrison argues that, contrary to popular philosophical views, unification and explanation often have little to do with each other. The mechanisms that facilitate unification are not those that enable us to explain how or why phenomena behave as they do. The book emphasizes the importance of mathematical structures in unification, and claims that despite this common feature theory unification is a multi-faceted process for which no general account can be offered." .

New York: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1990. Second Printing. Hardcover. 052134140X . Light discoloration of front and back pastedowns, BFEP, FFEP. ; A bright, solid book, text unmarked.; 9.1 X 5.7 X 0.8 inches; 256 pages; "This case study examines the interrelationship between mathematics and physics in the work of one of the major figures of the Scientific Revolution, the Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). Professor Yoder offers a detailed account of the discoveries that Huygens made at the end of 1659, including the invention of a pendulum clock that theoretically kept absolutely uniform time, and the creation of a mathematical theory of evolutes. She also describes the way that each of these important discoveries arose from the interaction of Huygens' mathematics and physics. A discussion of Huygens' relationship with other scientists and the priority disputes that sometimes motivated his research… Leer más