Number: the Language of Science. A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathmetician
Dantzig, Tobias
Published by The Macmillan Company, 1930
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Hardcover
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Good ; No jacket. 1930 The Macmillan Company. Second printing of the first edition, reprinted September 1930. The author is described on the title page as "a professor of mathematics at The University of Maryland and Lecturer on Mathematical Physics, U.S. Bureau of Standards." NOT ex-library. Hardcover has burgundy cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Deckle fore edges. Black and white plates. 260 pages. Hinges NOT cracked. There is a light binding crack bbetween two pages. Spine ends bumped and worn. Spine slightly faded. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Smudge on bottom page edges at outer corner. Light foxing on first and last few pages; endpapers tanned. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is missing. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Seller Inventory # 15182
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Title: Number: the Language of Science. A Critical ...
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Publication Date: 1930
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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Number the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathmetician
Published by
MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1930
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Peace of Mind Bookstore, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. Author was a professor of mathematics at The University of Maryland and Lecturer on Mathematical Physics, U.S. Bureau of Standards. A book that should required reading in every hight school, not on the technical, but a on symbols and form, the rationality, elegance, and perception of numbers and mathematics. References to and reproduced portraits of 11 philosophical/mathematical giants of the past, including Leibnitz, Poincare', Newton, Descartes, and Galileo. Burgundy, cloth-covered boards w/embossed rectangle and gilded titling, moderately worn w/small spots, rubbing, sunned spine, and a stain on back board; Binding and hinges strong, frontise and end pages foxed with age; Text has decked edges and is clean and bright. Inquiries encouraged, photos available. Professional book seller with store front since 1975. All orders carefully packaged and promptly shipped. Seller Inventory # 48585