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Book shows wear. Creased covers. Stains on edges and inside book. Binding has a little tear. Still readable copy. Seller Inventory # AUG-09-23-di-4956-ts
Bibliographic Details
Title: Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Books (...
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Used - Acceptable
Edition: Illustrated.
About this title
Dr. Bell was a former President of the Mathematical Association of America, a former Vice President of the American Mathematical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was on the editorial staffs of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, the American Journal of Mathematics, and the Journal of the Philosophy of Science. He belonged to The American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the Circolo Matematico di Palermo, the Calcutta Mathematical Society, Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. He won the Bôcher Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his research work. His twelve published books include The Purple Sapphire (1924), Algebraic Arithmetic (1927), Debunking Science, and Queen of the Sciences (1931), Numerology (1933), and The Search for Truth (1934).
Dr. Bell died in December 1960, just before the publication of his latest book, The Last Problem.
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