Category: Mathematics

Practice Problems and Calculating Short Cuts : Burroughs Electric Two-Total Calculator, Style 5 10 55

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Burroughs Adding Machine Company : 1951

Seller ID: 23774

Condition: Fair

82 pages; 4to (11") 28 cm; Tall blue softcover, white plastic comb binding, 16 pages of practice problems + 2 pages of calculator rules + 64 pages of further examples and methods of making calculations, 82 total pages, several b/w photos. ; Main text dated 1949, some pages dated 1951. Topics include: Super speed. Compute payroll. Figure invoices. Fixed decimal point accumulation. Compound multiplication. Chain-store discount calculation. Division of large amounts. Pro-rating. Percentages. More. ; We have graded this item Fair. Moderate edgewear. Comb has one crack and two misshapen teeth other...
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Pillow Problems and a Tangled Tale : Mathematical Recreations of Lewis Carroll

By: Carroll, Lewis; Illustrated by Arthur B. Frost

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : 1958

Seller ID: 21726

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

281 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; Tan softcover, [xx] + 109 + 152 + 16 pages, dozens of b/w diagrams and formulas, 6 b/w illustrations. ; Originally published 1885, 1893. This edition 1958. Over 80 original puzzles and posers involving higher math. ; Only a touch of edgewear. No marks or defects. Scarce. ; Mathematical Recreations of Lewis Carroll Series; Vol. 2
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Elements of Euclid, the : The First Six Books, the Eleventh, the Twelfth, Book of Euclid's Data, Elements of Trigonometry

By: Euclid, with Robert Simson

Price: $235.00

Publisher: A. Walker : 1819

Seller ID: 24100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

516 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; One of the classic books of mathematics and of the ancient world. Originally written around 300 BCE. This edition 1819. Hardcover, brown marbled leather, red band on spine with title (Simson's Euclid) in gilt, 516 pages, 5 tables, over 560 b/w line diagrams. ; Printed and published by A. Walker, Philadelphia, 1819. (Complete title: "The Elements of Euclid, viz The First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth, the Errors by which Theon, or Others, have Long Ago Vitiated these Books, are Corrected, and Some of Euclid's Demonstrations are Restored, also, t...
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Slide Rule Simplified : With Vintage Slide Rule

By: Harris, Charles O.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: American Technical Society : 1944

Seller ID: 18139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

268 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Hardcover, gray cloth, yellow and black lettering, [x] + 250 + 8 pages, tons of mathematical formulas and examples, hundreds of sample problems with answers in rear, a few b/w cartoons, 58 b/w figures and diagrams. ; Copyright page 1943. Title page 1944. One of the best textbooks ever published on how to use a slide-rule. ; Book shows almost no signs of use. No marks, no major defects. Top edge slightly faded. Lacks jacket. ; With this item you will also get one vintage slide rule made by Engineering Instruments of Peru, Indiana.
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Slide Rule : A Textbook for Classroom and Self Instruction

By: Johnston, C. L.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: William C. Brown Company Publishers : 1960

Seller ID: 17329

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

110 pages; 4to (11") 28 cm; Tall blue-green softcover, wire spiral binding, [xii] + 110 pages, index, 3 tables, over 50 b/w figures and diagrams, numerous sample problems, some with answers in rear. ; Copyright 1953. This is revised edition, 1960.; One sentence in red pencil on rear blank page. Several pages have very tiny pencil marks. Otherwise only minor wear. ; With this book you will also get an actual sliderule, Pickett Microline 115, twelve inches long, with original black leatherette sheath.
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High-Speed Math Self-Taught : Abridged Ediiton

By: Meyers, Lester, with Maxwell Marxe

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Pocket Books : 1959

Seller ID: 22684

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

290 pages; 16mo (6.5") 17 cm; Yellow paperback, 290 pages, dozens of mathematics shortcuts with examples, sample problems, descriptive answers, etc. ; Originally published 1959. This is 1st paperback edition, abridged by Maxwell Marxe, 1959; Very light wear. Pages starting to yellow around edges. Original advertisements bound in, as issued. ; Cardinal Giant GC Series; Vol. 67
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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Complete in 2 Volumes : Induction and Analogy in Mathematics, Patterns of Plausible Inference

By: Polya, George

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 1990

Seller ID: 23117

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

531 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Set of 2 softcover columes, brown/red and gray/black, appendix, bibliography, footnotes, dozens of formulas and examples, many sample problems with solutions in rear. ; Vol-1, [xvi] + 280 pages, copyright 1954, 12th printing, 1990. Vol-2, [x] + 225 pages, copyright 1954, 2nd edition 1968, 12th printing, 2019. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. No marks, no sign of use.
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Category: Mathematics

Practice Problems and Calculating Short Cuts : Burroughs Electric Two-Total Calculator, Style 5 10 55

Pillow Problems and a Tangled Tale : Mathematical Recreations of Lewis Carroll

Elements of Euclid, the : The First Six Books, the Eleventh, the Twelfth, Book of Euclid's Data, Elements of Trigonometry

Slide Rule Simplified : With Vintage Slide Rule

Slide Rule : A Textbook for Classroom and Self Instruction

High-Speed Math Self-Taught : Abridged Ediiton

Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Complete in 2 Volumes : Induction and Analogy in Mathematics, Patterns of Plausible Inference