Search Results: Mathematics from Conover Books

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. 97 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and diagrams! Contents include: "The Binomial Coefficient Function by David Fowler / Classical Mathematics by Jim Henle / Tantrices of Spherical Curves by Bruce Solomon / Giuga's Conjecture on Primality by D. Borwein, J. M. Borwein, P. B. Borwein, and R. Girgensohn / A Geometric Interpretation of the Solution of the General Quartic Polynomial............"--------- 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 , 1985. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, 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! Blue and white wrapper with blue lettering. 73 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Automated Reasoning by L. Wos / Solvability of Infinite Systems of Polynomial Equations over the Field of Complex Numbers by Alexander Abian / The Logarithmic Mean in n Variables by A. O. Pittenger / Systems of Numberation by Aviezri S. Fraenkel / An Elementary Proof of the Cauchy-Kowalevsky Theorem by Wolfgang Walter".... 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, 1980. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is gently 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 purple and white lettering. 81 (pages number 161-242) very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Contents include: "Offbeat Integral Geometry by Lawrence Zalcman / Infinitesimal Demformations of Portions of the Standard Sphere in E by David D. Bleecker / Positive Temperatures with Prescribed by Initial Heat Distributions by Calvin H. Wilcox / Circular Priorities in Secured Transactions by Alan L. Tyree / Plancherel's Theorem and the Shannon Series Derived Simultaneously by Antonio Steiner / Quadrangles, Butterflies, Pascal's Hexagon and Projective Fixed Points by Dixon Jones / The… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1988. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, 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! Green and white wrapper with green lettering. 82 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Award for Distinguished Service to Prof. Murray Klamkin by Gerald L. Alexanderson / Isonemal Fabrics by Branko Grunbaum and G. C. Shephard / A Dozen Difficult Diophantine Dilemmas by Andrew Bremner and Richard K. Guy / A Characterization of Graphs of Diameter Two by Gary S. Bloom, John W. Kennedy, and Louis V. Quintas / The Jordan-Brouwer Separation Theorem for Smooth Hypersurfaces by Elon L. Lima".... 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 , 1988. 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! Green and white wrapper with white and green lettering. 95 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "An Algebraic Approach to Some Number-Theoretic Problems Arising from Paper-Folding Regular Polygons by Jon Froemke and Jerrold W. Grossman / Integrals, an Introduction to Analytic Number Theory by Ilan Vardi / Dice with Fair Sums by Lewis Robertson, Rae Shortt, Stephen Landry / Three Old Problems about Polynomials with Real Roots by Raphael M. Robinson / A Challenging Definite Integral by H. S. M. Coxeter......" ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" -… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1973. 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. 115 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Hilbert's Tenth Problem is Unsolvable by Martin Davis / History of the Riemann Mapping Theorem by J. L. Walsh / The First U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad by S. Greitzer / Correction to 'What is a Reciprocity Law?' by B. F. Wyman / On Elementary Proofs of Peano's Existence Theorems by Johann Walter / A Remark Concerning Absolutely Continuous Functions by F. S. Van Vleck......" ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover.… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1988. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, 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! Green and white wrapper with green lettering. 90 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Growth in Gaussian Elimination by Jane Day and Brian Peterson / The Mobius Group and Invariant Spaces of Analytic Functions by Stephen D. Fisher / On the Zeros of the Taylor Polynomials Associated with the Exponential Function by Brian Conrey and Amit Ghosh / On Continued Fractions and a Certain Example of a Sequence of Continuous Functions by J. Fabrykowski / Using Pythagorean Triangles to Approximate Angles by W. S. Anglin".... 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 , 1982. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper, some fading along the edges of the wrapper, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Orange and white wrapper with orange lettering. 86 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "On Some Abstract Properties of Binomial Coefficients by Dean S. Clark / Extending Functions to Infinitesimals of Finite Order by Dawn Fisher / Remarks on some Putnam Problems by Harley Flanders / At What Points is the Projection Mapping Differentiable? by J. -B. Hiriart-Urruty / The Open Mapping Theorem by Jochem Zowe / Two Problems in the Plane by P. R. Scott".... 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 , 1993. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, 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! Pink and white wrapper with a black and white illustration on the front and black and pink lettering. 95 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Thomas Archer Hirst ---- Mathematician Xtravagant IV. Queenwood, France and Italy / J. Helen Gardner and Robin J. Wilson....Thoughts on Innumeracy: Mathematics Versus the World? / Peter L. Renz John Allen Paulos Replies....Reflections on Rippling Water / Michel Mendes France....The Principal Axis Theorem over Arbitrary Fields / David Mornhinweg, Daniel B. Shapiro, and K. G. Valente".... and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12"… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1993. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, 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! Pink and white wrapper with a black and white illustration on the front and black and pink lettering. 68 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Thomas Archer Hirst ---- Mathematician Xtravqgant V. London in the 1860s / J. Helen Gardner and Robin J. Wilson....From the Post-Markov Theorem Through Decision Problems to Public-Key Cryptography / Iris Lee Anshel and Michael Anshel....Famous Nonmathematicians / Steven G. Buyske....The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra / Gilbert Strang....A Simple Proof of the Jordan-Alexander Complement Theorem / Albrecht Dold....Squaring the Circle with Holes / Hansklaus Rummler".... and many other features and articles of interest!.… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1975. 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: "Notice to the Readership by Alex Rosenberg / Arrange Your Own Sabbatical Exchange: Use SEIS / The Quota Method of Apportionment by M. L. Balinski and H. P. Young / Polynomial Calculus with D-Like Operators by J. W. Burgmeier and R. E. Prather / Addendum to: 'Euler and the Zeta Function by A. G. Howson / Round Metric Spaces by M. B. Nathanson............" ---- 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 , 1994. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, 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! Green and white wrapper with a black and white illustration on the front and black and green lettering. 84 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Juggling Drops and Descents / Joe Buhler, David Eisenbud, Ron Graham, and Colin Wright....Teaching Integration by Substitution / David Gale....Workable Gears, Archimedian Solids and Planar Bipartite Graphs / Gary Gordon....On the Kummer Solutions of the Hypergeometric Equation / Reese T. Prosser....Reflections on a Mira / John W. Emert, Kay I. Meeks, and Roger B. Nelson....Buffon Noodles / Ed Waymire".... and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Mathematical Association of America , 1985. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, 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! Blue and white wrapper with blue lettering. 59 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "Award for Distinguished Service to Professor Everett Pitcher by David Roselle / Algorithmic Thinking and Mathematical Thinking by Donald E. Knuth / The Anatomy of Low Dimensional Stable Singularities by Jonathan Britt / Characterizing Maximally Looped Closed Curves by F. J. Craveiro De Carvalho / On Gelbaum's Algorithm for Computing the Minimal Polynomial of a Matrix by Ronald J. Leach".... 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. 93 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "The Role of Applications in Pure Mathematics by Dorothy L. Bernstein / Theoretical and Applied Computer Science: Antagonism or Symbiosis by Keith Harrow / Geometry According to Euclid by J. C. Fisher / The Airy Transform by D. V. Widder / Silverman's Game on Intervals by Ronald J. Evans / The Solutions of an Inequality for the nth Iterate of a Function by Erwin Turdza......" ----- and many other features and articles of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" -… Read More

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. 105 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "An Introduction to Distributions by John Horvath / Applications of Distributions to PDE Theory by F. Treves / Coding Theory: A Counterexample to G. H. Hardy's Conception of Applied Mathematics by Norman Levinson / Positive Definite Matrices by C. R. Johnson / Logic Versus Pedagogy by Morris Kline......." ---- 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 , 1990. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, 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! Blue and white wrapper with blue lettering. 89 (pages number 785-874 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Toetjes by Tomas Feder / Set Isometries and Their Extensions in the Max Metric by Regina B. Cohen / On Stability of Invariant Subspaces of matrices by A. C. M. Ran adn L. Rodman / A New Derivation of Stirling's Approximation of n! by George Marsaglia and John C. W. Marsaglia / Fibonacci Numbers and Aitken Sequences Revisited by M. J. Jamieson / A Cayley Theorem for Boolean Algebras by Stephen L. Bloom, Zoltan Esik, and Ernest G. Manes / Rouche's Theorem for Polynomials by Michael Filaseta / A… 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. 75 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "What Is a Surface? by Frank Morgan / Non-Euclidean Flashlights by Ron Perline / On a Converse of Sharkovsky's Theorem by Saber Elaydi / Splitting a Polygon into Two Congruent Pieces by Kimmo Eriksson / A Geometric Approach to Determinants by John Hannah / On Zero Derivatives by Darrell Desbrow............."--------- 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 , 1969. 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; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! White wrapper with green lettering. 117 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "A Problem in Cartography by John Milnor / Souslin's Conjecture by Mary Ellen Rudin / Hermite-Birkhoff Interpolation Problems with Complex Nodes by Murray Schechter / Complements and Comments by David Drasin / Some Irreducible Polynomials which are Reducible mod p for all p by M. A. Lee......" ----- 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 , 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. 92 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and diagrams! Contents include: "Large Torsional Oscillations in Suspension Bridges Revisited: Fixing an Old Approximation by P. J. McKenna / Inverse Conjugacies and Reversing by Symmetry Groups by Geoffrey R. Goodson / More on Paperfolding by Dmitry Fuchs, Serge Tabachnikov / Trigonometric Integrals and Hadamard Products by L. R. Bragg / Cluster Primes by Richard Blecksmith, Paul Erdos, J. L. Selfridge............."--------- 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 , 1992. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, 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! Blue and white wrapper with a black and white illustration on the front and black and blue lettering. 88 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Contents include: "The Car and the Goats / Leonard Gillman....A Continuous, Nowhere Differentiable Function / Mark Lynch....Birthday Problem with Unlike Probabilities / Kumar Joag-Dev and Frank Proschan....Two Relatives of Picard's Theorem on Entire Functions / Robert M. Gethner....An Unorthodox 'Test' / Abe Shenitzer....Replication and Stacking in Ergodic Theory/ Nathaniel A. Friedman....Improving the Cayley-Hamilton Equation for Low-Rank Transformations / J. Segercrantz....Bessel Functions and Kepler's Equation / Peter… Read More