A student of Trinity College and a member of the Cambridge Apostles, William Kingdon Clifford (1845-79) graduated as second wrangler in the mathematical tripos, became a professor of applied mathematics at University College London in 1871, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1874. The present work was begun by Clifford during a remarkably productive period of ill health, yet it remained unfinished at his death. The statistician and philosopher of science Karl Pearson (1857-1936) was invited to edit and ...
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A student of Trinity College and a member of the Cambridge Apostles, William Kingdon Clifford (1845-79) graduated as second wrangler in the mathematical tripos, became a professor of applied mathematics at University College London in 1871, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1874. The present work was begun by Clifford during a remarkably productive period of ill health, yet it remained unfinished at his death. The statistician and philosopher of science Karl Pearson (1857-1936) was invited to edit and complete the work, finally publishing it in 1885. It tackles five of the most fundamental areas of mathematics - number, space, quantity, position and motion - explaining each one in the most basic terms, as well as deriving several original results. Also demonstrating the rationale behind these five concepts, the book particularly pleased a later Cambridge mathematician, Bertrand Russell, who read it as a teenager.
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NF in VG jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front, in grey card jacket, 8vo. New edition (1946) with original preface by Karl Pearson; new preface by Bertrand Russell, introduction by James R. Newman. 1st thus (stated). vi + 249pp + colophon. Clifford bibliography, 123 figures throughout. NF to Fine/VG. Book has softened spine ends; extremely mild cocking toward lower end with no effect on strong binding; light shelving soil upper page edges. Cloth smooth and clean with extremely bright stamped titles and figures; pages clean and unmarkef on mildly toned original paper stock. Price-clipped jacket has light abrasion and occasional short nicks along upper edges with touches of surface loss at corners with tiny chip at front tip; 3/4" x 3/4" triangular flap internally re-taped along mid rear hinge ridge; scuffing to rear panel with front clean and bright as new. Jacket in Brodart. Classic of popular exposition in uncommn condition.
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