4 works in 5 volumes. Cloth, 3 with jackets. First Editions. A significant group of four first edition titles dealing with the history, philosophy, and logic of mathematics. Includes: Cajori, Florian. William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1916. Ernst Nagel's copy, signed on front free endpaper. (Chipping to spine.) Cajori, Florian. A History of the Conceptions of LImits and Fluxions in Great Britain from Newton to Woodhouse. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1919. Polya, G. Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning. Volume I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. Volume II: Patterns of Plausible Inference. Jackets. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954. Davis, Martin. The Undecidable: Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable Problems and Computable Functions. Jacklet (price clipped). Hewlett, NY: Raven Press, [1965].
4 works in 5 volumes. Cloth, 3 with jackets. First Editions. A significant group of four first edition titles dealing with the history, philosophy, and logic of mathematics. Includes: Cajori, Florian. William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1916. Ernst Nagel's copy, signed on front free endpaper. (Chipping to spine.) Cajori, Florian. A History of the Conceptions of LImits and Fluxions in Great Britain from Newton to Woodhouse. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1919. Polya, G. Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning. Volume I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. Volume II: Patterns of Plausible Inference. Jackets. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954. Davis, Martin. The Undecidable: Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable Problems and Computable Functions. Jacklet (price clipped). Hewlett, NY: Raven Press, [1965].
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