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2001WN41729New York: Springer-Verlag 2001. Yellow paper covered boards with blue and brown printing. Clean copy with only the former owner name printed neatly on ffep. Second Printing. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Springer-Verlag Hardcover books
19825761010Springer-Verlag 1982. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN:0387906150 Springer-Verlag hardcover
19834840922Springer 1983. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN:0387901922 Springer hardcover
19975809518Springer 1997. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1200grams ISBN:9780387948416 Springer hardcover
8vo, hardcover in dj, 420pp. David Nirenberg is dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where he also teaches in the Committee of Social Thought and the Department of History. His books include Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition; Neighboring Faiths: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today; and Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. After doing research in mathematics for a dozen years, David&;s father, Ricardo L. Nirenberg, turned to his other calling: philosophy and literature. He has published numerous essays, short fiction, and the novels Cry Uncle and Wave Mechanics: a Love Story. He is the founder and editor of the literary journal. Often enough over these past three thousand years, we humans have pursued these divisions to the death, clashing over differences of opinion about what we should know and how we should know it. We are not talking here only of the many clashes between different religions and cultures of knowledge in the distant past. Even the two world wars of the twentieth century were understood by many who lived through them as the consequence of bad choices about what kinds of knowledge to pursue. World War I, for example, was explained by leading European and American intellectuals as the result of mathematics gone bad, an inhuman fusion of arithmetic and geometry that destroyed Western civilization... Plenty of ideologues found it easy enough to cast the Cold War as a struggle between two different theories of knowledge, &;Marxism&; and &;liberalism,&; &;determinism&; and &;freedom.&; Perhaps future generations will come to see the current arguments about the human impact on climate change as yet another chapter in this long history of humanity&;s division over the nature of knowledge. Today, mathematical forms of knowledge&;computation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, for example&;touch many more aspects of the world than they did in the first half of the twentieth century, or, indeed, in any previous period of this planet&;s history. Divisions between types of knowledge, such as those between the humanities and the sciences&;&;the two cultures,&; as C. P. Snow dubbed them in the year 1959&;are if anything deeper than they have ever been. Yet unlike our predecessors from a century ago, few people today&;except perhaps panicked humanities professors who feel their habitat melting away beneath their feet&;would consider these divisions deeply threatening. Even fewer would claim that understanding them is in some way essential to humanity. We are not writing an Apocalypse. Ours is an attempt to understand these millennial divisions so that we might better live with them. How has humanity pitted its various powers of thought so fiercely against itself? And why have the truth claims of numerical relations emerged so powerful from this conflict? Achieving this understanding is a historical task, and the first half of this book set out to provide that history. In chapters ranging from ancient Greek philosophy and the rise of monotheistic religions to the emergence of modern physics and economics, we trace how ideals, practices, and habits of thought formed over millennia have turned number into the foundation stone of human claims to knowledge and certainty... Learning to live humanely with these divisions is the goal of the second half of this book. These divisions and conflicts of our faculties and our knowledge are not necessary ones. The fragments of our humanity can be brought together in different ways, even in ways that might be truer to basic aspects of the questions we want to ask and the objects we want to know, truer even to our own human being. This book is therefore not only a history. It is also a philosophical and poetic exhortation for humanity to take responsibility for that history, for the knowledge it has produced, and for the many aspects of the world and of humanity that it ignores or endangers. We seek to convince you that how we humans think about our knowledge has deep consequences for how we live our lives and that we need to become more conscious of the first if we wish to change the second&; The discovery and mathematization of repetition and periodicity in the movements of the sun, moon, planets, and even of the stars that so densely packed the preindustrial skies gave many ancient societies a sense that they could project the past into the future: a comforting predictive power in a vast and variable cosmos. Long before written record we find the constellation we call Orion painted by Paleolithic hands on the cave walls of Lascaux. And on the cuneiform tablets of the first Mesopotamian scribes, the verb to count was applied to the skies in the production of astral omens... Today oneirology (the science of dreams) is scarcely a word. The study of magic is confined to anthropologists, historians, or &;the ignorant.&; Astronomy, however, is beneficiary of billions in annual investment from science foundations and is a monument to the ability of the human mind to make some sense of the structure of the universe. The point here is not that knowledge has progressed. (When it comes to dreams, it may even be that a certain kind of self- knowledge has been lost by not attending to them.) Our point is rather that the form of attention we today call scientific has been oriented toward certain kinds of sameness&;in this case formalizable, axiomatic, mathematical&;and not toward others. There are many reasons why this is the case. But one, noted already by the Roman natural philosopher Pliny, writing some two thousand years ago, is that mathematical astronomy provided some seemingly stable powers of prediction about an otherwise overwhelming universe... Pliny thought mathematical astronomers praiseworthy because they derived procedures through which they could predict the movements of the planetary deities, thereby binding &;gods.&; And to the degree that the planets were thought to determine the fate of a person, a science (today we call this astrology, not astronomy) capable of predicting the future position of the planets also offers knowledge about human fate, thereby binding &;men.&; The Aztecs provide a different astronomical example, instructive because it reminds us of the contingency of certainty and the tenacity of fear. They were sophisticated astronomers, but they believed (as did the ancient Egyptians) that the system that kept the sun appearing regularly in the sky was unstable and that the sun might someday fail to rise if humans did not do their part by making offerings to the gods... How could anyone think that human action (let alone sacrifice) is necessary to ensure the dawn? What could be more certain from our experience than the sun&;s rising? And yet the Aztecs were not wrong in worrying about their knowledge of the sunrise. Their refusal to deduce future certainty from previous dawns is defensible in the most sophisticated probabilistic terms. As solar system dynamicists today would tell us, the system is unstable. Yet we moderns expend very little of our still considerable religious energy in keeping the solar system going. Again, the point is not that the Aztecs were bad scientists or that we moderns should be more worried about the sunrise. Our point is simply that the desire for certainty can lead us to extend&;often inappropriately, sometimes disastrously&;lessons, methods, and sciences of sameness from one domain of knowledge into another where perhaps they do not apply.
In this critically acclaimed international bestseller, Petros Papachristos, a mathematical prodigy, has devoted much of his life trying to prove one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time: Goldbach's Conjecture, the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. His feverish and singular pursuit of this goal has come to define his life. Now an old man, he is looked on with suspicion and shame by his family-until his ambitious young nephew intervenes. Seeking to understand his uncle's mysterious mind, the narrator of this novel unravels his story, a dramatic tale set against a tableau of brilliant historical figures-among them G. H. Hardy, the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and a young Kurt Gödel. Meanwhile, as Petros recounts his own life's work, a bond is formed between uncle and nephew, pulling each one deeper into mathematical obsession, and risking both of their sanity. 209p.Original wraps plus dust jacket Book
In this critically acclaimed international bestseller, Petros Papachristos, a mathematical prodigy, has devoted much of his life trying to prove one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time: Goldbach's Conjecture, the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. His feverish and singular pursuit of this goal has come to define his life. Now an old man, he is looked on with suspicion and shame by his family-until his ambitious young nephew intervenes. Seeking to understand his uncle's mysterious mind, the narrator of this novel unravels his story, a dramatic tale set against a tableau of brilliant historical figures-among them G. H. Hardy, the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and a young Kurt Gödel. Meanwhile, as Petros recounts his own life's work, a bond is formed between uncle and nephew, pulling each one deeper into mathematical obsession, and risking both of their sanity. 209p. Book
In this critically acclaimed international bestseller, Petros Papachristos, a mathematical prodigy, has devoted much of his life trying to prove one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time: Goldbach's Conjecture, the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. His feverish and singular pursuit of this goal has come to define his life. Now an old man, he is looked on with suspicion and shame by his family-until his ambitious young nephew intervenes. Seeking to understand his uncle's mysterious mind, the narrator of this novel unravels his story, a dramatic tale set against a tableau of brilliant historical figures-among them G. H. Hardy, the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and a young Kurt Gödel. Meanwhile, as Petros recounts his own life's work, a bond is formed between uncle and nephew, pulling each one deeper into mathematical obsession, and risking both of their sanity. 209p. Book
19908698049Cambridge University Press 1990. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN:0521365422 Cambridge University Press hardcover
FIRST EDITION. No dust jacket. Owner names on endpapers, otherwise unrmarked. Boards somewhat worn. ...
1955243725München, Vlg. d. BAW. 1955. 4°. M. 1 Faks. 58 S. OBr. Unaufgeschn. Ex. (BAW. Abh. math.-nat. Abt. 71).
19410244161941. This is the original 1941 edition -- NOT print on demand edition or modern reprint. Near Fine condition. Cover very mildly sunned at the edges. Corner just a little bumped. NO text is affected. "Nota del Socio corrispondente E. BOMPIANI presentata nell'adunanza del 22 Gennaio 1941 - XIX." Bound in the original wraps stamped in black. Reprinted from Estratto Dagli Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino Vol. 76 1940-41 - XIX 128-132. 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. Several of the books contain his ink stamp signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this volume does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. 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. . Softcover. Near Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 7 pages. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Paperback
Broché. 127 pages.
8vo, br. ed. bandelle. pp. 400, cm 24x12. (Scienza e Idee. 280).
197435502728Paris,, Balland, , 1974 ; in 8° , broché, 60 pp.-(2)ff., illustrations de Gourmelin, envoi. EDITION ORIGINALE. Envoi de l'illustrateur à Robert Benayoun.
86647Paris, Balland, 1974. 15 x 23, 61 pp., broché, bon état.
ISBN : 2213614970. FAYARD. 2003. In-4 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 404 pages.
6941Paris, Berger Levrault, 1930, in 8, broché, X-187pp
36680Paris Editions Berger-Levrault 1930 in 8 (19x14,5) 1 volume broché, couverture illustrée conservée, 185 pages [1], avec 81 photographies en noir et blanc. Préface du maréchal Lyautey. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1930206097Berger-levrault 1930 185 pages in12. 1930. Broché. 185 pages.
19307525Paris Berger-Levrault 1930 Petit In-8 X+185 pp, (.) Au Maroc avec un officier suédois. Traduction de P. Desfeuilles, préface de M. le Maréchal Lyautey ; avec 81 illustrations en noir in-texte. Illustration couleur sur 1er plat sali ; dos frotté avec très léger manque en tête. Rousseurs sur page de garde
8vo, pp. xvii-186.
19976734Paris Odile Jacob 1997 Un volume in-8 dos collé, couverture blanche illustrée, 528 pages. Bon état.
1997R100067123Odile Jacob. 1997. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 528 pages - pliure et étiquette collée sur le 2ème plat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 510-Mathématiques
