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1929025872Princeton New Jersey: Annals of Mathematics 1929. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. SEE OUR PHOTOS. Very Good condition. Light cover wear/soil. Pages are clean and unmarked. Reprinted from the Annals of Mathematics Second Series Vol. 30 No. 4 October 1929. B. C. Wong has inscribed on the front cover: "To Professor T. R. Hollcroft With compliments of the writer signed B. C. Wong." This is the original 1929 publication -- NOT print on demand edition or modern reprint. Bound in the original wraps stamped in black. This volume was among several dozen books from Temple Rice Hollcroft's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. The American mathematician Temple Rice Hollcroft 1889 - 1967 received B.S. in 1912 and A.B. in 1914 from Hanover College and then A.M. in 1915 from the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in 1917 from Cornell University under Virgil Snyder. Hollcroft was a mathematics professor at Wells College from 1918 to 1954 from which he retired as professor emeritus. Hollcroft served for 14 years as Associate Secretary of the American Mathematical Society. In 1932 in Zurich he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematician ICM. His subject was THE GENERAL WEB OF SURFACES AND THE SPACE INVOLUTION DEFINED BY IT . Being invited to talk at the ICM has been called "the equivalent of induction to a hall of fame." - from Wikipedia. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. pp. 547 - 551. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Annals of Mathematics Paperback
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