Mathematics from Charlie's Books

"Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide" - 2nd Edition by Daniel Kleppner and Norman Ramsey. Soft-Cover book (10" x 6.8") published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1985 reprint. Preface to the Second Edition by the authors. Included: Appendix A - Derivations, Appendix B -Additional Topics, Review Problems, Tables, and Index. 262pp. "This second edition continues to teach the elementary techniques… Saber más sobre este artículo

"Mathematics and the Physical World" - a 1981 paperback edition published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York. "This Dover edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged, slightly corrected republication of the work as published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, in 1959." Preface by the author, Morris Kline. Illustrations. 482 pages plus "a Catalog of Selected Dover Books… Saber más sobre este artículo

"The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics" edited by Timothy Ferris with a Foreword by Clifton Fadiman, General Editor. First Edition 1991 indicated with the printing number sequence although the absence of a price on the jacket. Published by Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company in 1991. Includes bibliographical references and index. 859pp. Blue boards with letters in gilt… Saber más sobre este artículo

"Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty" by Morris Kline. Fall River Press, 2011. First, thus. Selected Bibliography and Index. 448pp. Underlining in the text for the first 23 pages, thus, a Very Good hardcover with a Fine dust jacket.

Soft-cover book 9th printing 2000 - Quality Paperback Book Club and Book of the Month Club selection. 294pp with illustrations. Very Good+ condition.

Near Fine condition of this 1989 hardcover book with glossy boards. "A Self-Teaching Guide". 240pp.

Soft-cover book First Owls Book Edition 2002. Illustrations by Christine Heinitz and Thomas Banchoff. Index. 306pp. Upper corner of few pages creased, thus, a Very Good clean and tightly bound book. "The author describes and illustrates the different classifications of knots, their different properties, the ways of measuring their complexity, and the important applications of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Soft-cover book reprint 1988 edition by Dover Publications, Inc., New York. Subject Index. Good+ clean and unmarked book with slight cover corner creases. "In short, 'Number Theory and Its History' offers an unusually interesting and accessible presentation of one of the oldest and most fascinating provinces of mathematics."

Hardcover book 1964 edition published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. 121pp + Index. Small stain on the lower exterior boards only, and a dusty top-edge, else, a clean, unmarked, and tightly bound book in Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket with moderate rubbing in general. From the Preface - "Unless a person has some familiarity with the concept… Saber más sobre este artículo

Fine 1st edition with Fine dust jacket. "This is a book for everyone who ever loved or hated mathematics. It shows mathematics as it really is: emotional, imaginative, beautiful, terrifying, deeply spiritual, metaphorical, and very political - anything but the dry, computational, right-or-wrong manipulation of symbols that is all too often taught as 'mathematics.' " --- George Lakoff,… Saber más sobre este artículo