Hydrographer,

Dead Reckoning: Altitude and Azimuth Table: H. O. no. 211.

Washington, D.C., U.S. Navy Dept Hydrographic, 1943. 3rd ed. VG. Black binding, yellow lettering & outlining, owner name, business stamp ft endpaper. Tabs.

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Polytechnic Institute,

Plane and Spherical Trigonometry.

NY, American Book Co, (1909). G. In homemade jacket. Notations on endpapers.

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Buchzahl: BOOKS044574I

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Kamke, Dr. E., translated by Frederick Ragemihl,

Theory of Sets.

NY, Dover Publications, (1950). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. Theory of sets constitutes one of the boldest creations of the human mind. DJ edge wear & sl browning, owner name fep.

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Kraitchik, Maurice,

Traite des Carres Magiques (Treatise of Magic Squares) (in French).

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1930. Very good. 1/2 leather with marbled boards. 108 pp plus 4 pages of ads for another Kraitchik title at rear. Owner pencil notations. fep, pencilled worksheets loosely inserted. Very little wear, gilt lettering on spine is bright. A clean and bright copy of this hard to find title. Kraitchik (1882-1957) was a mathematician born in Russia who grew up in Belgium and moved to the US. He did much to popularize mathematics with work in number theory and recreational mathematics.

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Lagrange, Joseph Louis,

Mecanique Analytique, Nouvelle Edition (Analytical Mechanics) (in French) Volume 1.

Paris, Courcier, 1811. Good. Volume 1 only. Lagrange (1736-1813) is considered the greathest mathematician of the 18th century. This monumental. work was produced during the 20 years he lived in Berlin in a position with Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Spine covering is loose and missing pieces. Contents are tight and bright. Former owner has loosely inserted notes in French with calculations in the book.

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Laplace, Pierre-Simon,

Exposition du Systeme du Monde (in French).

Paris, Duprat, AN VII (1799). 2nd. Very Good. Edges and corners worn, contents tight and bright. Laplace's famouns work - classic history of astronomy on the origin and. formation of the solar system. One of the most successful popularizations of science every composed. Five books (livre) contained in one volume.

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Lial, Margaret L. & Charles D. Miller,

Mathematics with Applications in the Management, Natural and Social Sciences.

Glenview, IL, Scott Foresman, (1974). VG. Purple swirl binding, gray title block with brown lettering. Owner notations.

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Lyman, Elmer A. & Edwin C. Goddard,

Plane and Spherical Trigonometry.

Boston, Allyn and Bacon, (1900). G. Tan binding stained with red and black ink, tanned at edges, owner name ft endpaper.

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Markoff, A. A.,

Differenzenrechnung (Differential Calculus) (in German).

Leipzig, Teubner, 1896. Good. 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards, piece loose on spine, cover rubbed, corners and edges sl worn, contents tight/bright.

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Buchzahl: BOOKS044596I

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Monge, Gaspard and Hachette, Jean Nicholas Pierre,

Geometrie Descriptive. Lecons donnees aux ecoles normales, L'An 3 de la Republique (Descriptive Geometry) (in French).

Paris, Klostermann, 1812. Good. Two volumes in one book containing both Monge's first 9 1lectures (132 pp and 25 fold-out plates) and Hachette's Supple. ment with additional lectures (120 pp plus 11 fold-out plates). Edge, spine and corner wear. Handwritten note in French commenting on text loosely inserted at page 100. Owner's notation in pencil fep "The work which created descriptive geometry". Monge (1746-1818) was a professor at the Ecole Normale de l'An III in Paris in1795 and presented a series of 13 lectures on descriptive geometry to students in training to be secondary school teachers. Monge was called one of the most original mathematicians of his age. Hachette (1769-1834) was an eminent mathematician and engineer, and was Monge's assistant compiling his 1795 lecture notes, and prepared the supplement with the lectures not included in the original 1799 work with Monge's first 9 lectures (pub Baudouin, Paris, AN VII (1799)).

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Paulos, John Allen,

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper.

NY, Basic, (1995). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Paulos leads us through a daily newspaper to show us the hidden math angles of countless articles including the Senate, the SATs. sex, crime, celebrities & cults, and shows us how mathematical naviete can put us at a disadvantage.

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Peterson, Ivars,

The Mathematical Tourist: snapshots of modern mathematics.

NY, Freeman, (1988). 6th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Frontiers of contemporary mathematics, full of unanswered questions.

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Buchzahl: BOOKS029308I

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Poincare, Jules-Henri,

Lecons de Mecanique Celeste Professees a la Sorbonne (Lessons of Celestial Mechanics) (in French) Volumes I and III.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1905, 1910. Very good. 1/2 red leather binding with marbled boards, sl edge and corner wear, contents bright and tight. Vol I has 365 pp and Vol III. has 472 pp including 2 fold-out pages with maps. The work is fundamental to celestial mechanics. Poincare was one of the greatest mathematical minds of the 19th century, his work on the "three boy problem" (the gravitational interplay of three masses) leads some to credit him as a co-discoverer of the special theory of relativity, along with Einstein and Lorentz (Baskingstoke, HAM, UK).

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Poisson, Simeon Denis,

Traite de Mecanique (Treatise on Mechanics) (in French) Volume 2.

Paris, Courcier, 1811. 1st. Good. Vol 2. Sl wear to edges, water stain to parts of several pages, contents tight. 500 pp plus 3 fold-out pages of figures. Poisson (1781-1840) presents in a single work the entire elements of rational mechanics.

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Pringsheim, Alfred,

Grundlagen der Allgemeinen Funktionenlehre (General function teachings),(in German), Volume II A 1.

Leipzig, Teubner, nd. Good. Volume II A 1 from the Encyklopadie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften mit einschluss ihrer anwendungen (Encyclopedia. of Mathematical Sciences). Corner bumped, spine sl worn, covers sl soiled.

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