A COURSE OF MODERN ANALYSIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF INFINITE SERIES AND OF ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL TRANSCENDENTAL FUNCTIONS.

WHITTAKER, Edmund Taylor. ( Leon Isserlis )

Published by Cambridge University Press,, Cambridge,, 1902

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First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp 378. Original publisher's navy blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Ownership signature on the front endpaper of Leon Isserlis (1881Ð1966) a Russian-born British statistician known for his work on the exact distribution of sample moments. He was born in Bohuslav near Kyiv in June 1881 and was a direct descendant of the eminent rabbi Moses Isserles. He moved to Britain when he was ten years old with his widowed mother, an elder brother and two sisters. He was also chairman of the Jewish Health Organization from 1931 to 1939. He served as secretary of the Royal Statistical Society in 1934Ð35 and again in 1944Ð45, and was awarded its Guy Medal in Silver in 1939. loosely inserted is a sheet of pencilled mathematical equations, in Isserlis' hand. Some rubbing to extremities and a short 1cm tear to cloth of upper cover, otherwise very good. Decent copy. Neat later ownership name on front endpaper. Seller Inventory # C82382

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Title: A COURSE OF MODERN ANALYSIS: AN INTRODUCTION...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press,, Cambridge,

Publication Date: 1902

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition