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Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians with Biographical Sketches: Portfolio I by Smith, David Eugene - 1946

by Smith, David Eugene

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Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians with Biographical Sketches: Portfolio I by Smith, David Eugene - 1946

Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians with Biographical Sketches: Portfolio I

by Smith, David Eugene

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New York: Scripta Mathematica - Yeshiva College, 1946. 12 folders in a folding cardstock wrapper, with an introductory folio, biographical comments, a glossy plate, & manuscript or title-page facsimile for each mathematician, intended for classroom use: to humanize mathematics. Included are Archimedes, Copernicus, Viète, Galileo, Napier, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Lagrange, Gauss, Lobachevsky, Sylvester; complete. Reprint; first published ten years earlier. Light wear to folder, some creases, exterior heavily tanned; contents show minor edgewear.. Reprint. Unbound. Very Good/Good. 10¼" by 14".
  • Bookseller Bookworks MWABA, IOBA US (US)
  • Format/Binding Paperback
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition Good
  • Edition Reprint
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Scripta Mathematica - Yeshiva College
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1946
  • Keywords Mathimatics, Mathematicians, Portraits
  • Size 10¼" by 14"

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Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians: With Brief Biographical Sketches: Portfolio Number One

by Smith, David Eugene

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First Edition
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New York: Scripta Mathematica, 1946. First Edition . Disbound. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. A Very Good copy of this portfolio of twelve large portraits, laid into the publisher's folding stiff paper covers. The portraits are Near Fine, with a crease to the bottom corner of the cover sheet. Mild wear to the protective cover, which is nicely inscribed and signed by the editor of Scripta Mathematica in 1947.
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