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Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1972. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; light glue stain on the rear of the wrapper; former owner's name is in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 115 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Award for Distinguished Service to Professor Carl Barnett Allendoerfer / Award of the 1972 Chauvenet Prize to Professor Jean Francois Treves / Conjectures and Counterexamples in Metrization Theory by L. A. Steen / The Origins of Modern Axiomatics: Pasch to Peano by H. C. Kennedy / Emmy Noether by C. H. Kimberling......." ---- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1970. Edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some shelf wear; light glue stain on the rear of the wrapper; former owner's name is in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 123 very clean unmarked informative and educational pages! Contents include: "What is a Sheaf? by J. A. Seebach, Jr., Linda A. Seebach, and Lynn A. Steen / On the Foundations of Set Theory by J. D. Monk / Thinking Geometrically by Daniel Pedoe / The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition by J. H. McKay / Correction to 'Life without T2' by Albert Wilansky......" --------and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1970. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; light glue stain on the rear of the wrapper; former owner's name is in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 108 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "'Problems in the Theory of Rings' Revisited by Irving Kaplansky / The Chauvenet Symposium by J. C. Abbott / Finite-Dimensional Hilbert Spaces by P. R. Halmos / Complex Methods in Harmonic Analysis by Guido Weiss / Critical points and Curvature for Embedded Polyhedral Surfaces by T. F. Banchoff / Fundamenta mathematicae: An Examination of its Founding and Significance by Sister Mary Grace Kuzawa......." ---- and many other features and articles of interest!. First… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1972. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; light glue stain on the rear of the wrapper; former owner's name is in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 98 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "The Formation and Decay of Shock Waves by Peter D. Lax / Infinitesimals by A. H. Lightstone / Fidelity in Mathematical Discourse: Is One and One Really Two? by P. J. Davis / Complete Orthonormal Systems in Pre-Hilbert Spaces by Michael Golomb / Haar Integrals on Topological Rings by James T. Smith......." ---- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1973. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; light glue stain on the rear of the wrapper; former owner's name is in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 116 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Unique Factorization Domains by P. M. Cohn / Continuous Analogues of Series by R. P. Boas, Jr. and H. Pollard / England was lost on the Playing Fields of Eton: A Parable for Mathematics by A. B. Willcox......." ---- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1974. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; former owner's name is in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with a green illustration on the back and green lettering. 110 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white diagrams! Contents include: "Coefficient Identities for Powers of Taylor and Dirichlet Series by H. W. Gould / Complex Iterated Radicals by Hanns-Walter Rohde / Are there n + 2 Points in E with Odd Integral Distances? by R. L. Graham, B. L. Rothschild and E. G. Straus / Buffon's Needle Experiment by E. F. Schuster / Inner Product Spaces by Stanley Gudder / Convex Regions which Cover Arcs of Constant Length by John Gerriets and George Poole".... and… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1999. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with blue and black lettering. 91 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and diagrams! Contents include: "Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Leonard Gillman by Kenneth A. Ross / Does Mathematics Need New Axioms? by Solomon Feferman / Statistical Independence and Normal Numbers: An Aftermath to Mark Kac's Carus Monograph by Gerald S. Goodman / The Velocity Dependence of Aerodynamic Drag: A Primer for Mathematicians by Lyle N. Long, Howard Weiss / George Green: An Enigmatic Mathematician by C. M. Cannell............."--------- and many other features and articles… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1974. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; former owners name is written in ink in the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 125 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Algebraic Tiling by S. K. Stein / Foliations of 3-Manifolds by Maurice Cohen / Optimal Velocity in a Race by J. B. Keller / An Elementary Proof of Kolmogorov's Theorem by A. S. Cavaretta, Jr. / A New Look at the Three Circles Theorem by H. S. Bear / The Derivative Song by Tom Lehrer......" ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1997. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with blue and black lettering. 93 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and diagrams! Contents include: "Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Deborah Tepper Haimo by Carole B. Lacampagne / Scheduling Conflict-free Parties for a Dating Service by Bryan L. Shader, Chanyoung Lee Shader / An Infinite Set of Heron Triangles with Two Rational Medians by Ralph H. Buchholz, Randall L. Rathbun / Connected Sprouts by T. K. Lam / Regular Expressions for Program Computations by Ronald E. Prather / Relatios Between Crossing Numbers of Complete and Complete Bipartite Graphs by R.… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1977. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 73 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Award for Distinguished Service to Professor Victor Klee by Truman Botts / Error-Correcting Codes and Invariant Theory: New Aplications of a Nineteenth-Century Technique by N. J. A. Sloane / Singular Cardinals and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis by J. E. Baumgartner and K. Prikry / Complementary Systems of Integers by A. S. Fraenkel..........." ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1977. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 80 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Diameters of Arcs and the Gerrymandering Problem by J. C. Oxtoby / The Prodigal Integral by G. R. Sell / Immersions and mod-2 Quadratic Forms by L. H. Kauffman and T. F. Banchoff / The Fifth U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad by S. L. Greitzer / A Constructive Look at Orthonormal Bases in Hilbert Space by D. S. Bridges / On the Existence of Locally Recurrent unctions by M. L. Engquist / Spheres which Look Round All Round are Round by E. H. Kronheimer........." ---- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to -… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1999. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with blue and black lettering. 86 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and diagrams! Contents include: "Some Fundamental Control Theory I: Controllability, Observability, and Duality by William J. Terrell / The Education of a Pure Mathematician by Bruce Pourciau / Multivariable Calculus and the Plus Topology by Daniel J. Velleman / The Forced Damped Pendulum: Chaos, Complication, and Control............."--------- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1999. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with blue and black lettering. 86 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "A Modern Treatment of the 15 Puzzle by Aaron F. Archer / Effects of Calculus Reform: Local and National by James F. Hurley , Uwe Koehn, Susan L. Gantner / Some Fundamental Control Theory II: Feedback Linearization of Single Input Nonlinear Systems by William J. Terrell / The Dirichlet Problem for Ellipsoids by John A. Baker / Curves Whose Curvature Depends on Distance from the Origin by David A. Singer / The Fifty-Ninth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition by Leonard F. Klosinski, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Loren C. Larson............."---------… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1996. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with blue and black lettering. 84 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and diagrams! Contents include: "Sums of Powers of Integers by A. F. Beardon / Wielandt' Theorem About the I-function by Reinhold Remmert / Charting the 3-Sphere ---- A Exposition for Undergraduates by Louis Zulli / Calculus: Reformed or Deformed? by Margaret Kleinfeld / The Method of Undetermined Generalization and Specialization by Doron Zeilberger / A Note on 'Impossible' Paper Folding by Thomas Hull / A New Minimization Proof for the Bradchistochrone by Gary Lawlor............"--------- and many other features… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1980. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Purple and white wrapper with white and purple lettering. 91 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Calculator Calculus and Roundoff Errors by George Miel / Euler's Version of the Laplace Transform by Michael A. B. Deakin / Twisted Prismatic Klein Bottles by Carlo H. Sequin / Dispersion Points and Fixed Points by J. Cobb and W. Voxman / The Connection Between lim sup and Uniform Integrability by Richard B. Darst......" ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1979. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; some light fading to the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Brown and white wrapper with white and brown lettering. 103 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Digital Topology by Azriel Rosenfeld / Finding How Many Roots a Polynomial Has in (0,1) or (0,) by John W. Pratt / Summing an Alternating Series by Richard Johnsonbaugh / Recent Applications of Some Old Work of Laguerre by Emil Grosswald / Nonstandard Set Theory by Karel Hrbacek / Fifty Years Ago by R. P. Boas / A Drawing No One Can Draw by M. Stojakovic......" ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1979. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; some light fading to the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Brown and white wrapper with white and brown lettering. 83 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Picturesque Exponential Sums, I by D. H. Lehmer and Emma Lehmer / Discovering Theorems with a Computer: The Case of y = sin(xy) by Wendell Mills, Boris Weisfeiler, and Allan M. Krall / The Godel Incompleteness Theorem From a Length-of-Proof Perspective by John Dawson / The Twentieth International Mathematical Olympiad by Samuel L. Greitzer / The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition by L. F. Klosinski, G. L. Alexanderson, A. P. Hillman / Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries Without Continuity by Marvin… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1979. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; some light fading to the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Brown and white wrapper with white and brown lettering. 93 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Search and Its Optimization by Bernard O. Koopman / Mathematics as an Objective Science by Nicolas D. Goodman / What Is Mathematics? by Ernst Snapper / The Cantor-Lebesgue Theorem by R. L. Cooke / The Bounded Consistency Theorem by William H. Ruckle / Correction to 'The 'Why-Don't-You-Just...?' Barrier in Discrete Algorithms............." ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1979. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; some light fading to the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Brown and white wrapper with white and brown lettering. 73 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Award for Distinguished Service to Otto Neugebauer by R. P. Boas / Award of the Chauvenet Prize to Dr. Neil J. A. Sloane by D. P. Roselle / Prisoners' Dilemma and Professional Sports Drafts by S. J. Brams and P. D. Straffin, Jr. / An Introduction to Ramanujan's 'Lost' Notebook by George E. Andrews / Universal States of Finite Anit-Plane Shear: Ericksen's Problem in Miniature by James K. Knowles............." ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1977. Minor edge and corner wear; gently scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is lightly creased; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 87 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Poster Sessions at the January 1978 Meeting of the Association / Applications of Conformal Mapping to Potential Theory Through Computer Graphics by Donald T. Piele, Morris W. Firebaugh and Robert Manulik / Finite Simple Groups by James F. Hurley and Arunas Rudvalis / Addendum to 'Can One See the Shape of a Surface?' by Reese T. Prosser..........." ------ and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.