About this title: As a newly minted Ph.D., Paul Halmos came to the Institute for Advanced Study in 1938 - even though he did not have a fellowship - to study among the many giants of mathematics who had recently joined the faculty. He eventually became John von Neumann's research assistant, and it was one of von Neumann's inspiring lectures that spurred Halmos to ...
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Edition: Second edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.
Description: Good. Gray cloth covered boards; no dust jacket; ex-library with usual stamps and markings; book quite clean inside and out, very good except for library markings; 7 3/4"-9 3/4" Tall; 199 pgs. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Van Nostrand
Date Published: 1958
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hardcover, 200 pp. 2nd Ed. Name on ffep, light edge wear, else text clean. Jacket has edge chips, tears. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand. (1958)., Princeton New Jersey
Description: The University Series in Undergraduate Mathematics. Hardcover. Gray cloth. [viii] 200pp includes Appendix (Hilbert Space), index of terms, index of symbols. Clean inside. **faults: soft at spine head, minor freckles on text block at top, previous owner name. VG+ / no dj (textbook, math). read more
Description: Second Edition. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1958. 199pp. Very good, with tape stains inside boards where now absent dust jacket was once taped, text clean and tight. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D Van Nostrand Company, Inc
Date Published: 1958
Description: Good. Size: Octavo; Some small chips, tears and edge wear to DJ, former owner's name inside but not an ex-library, completely unmarked inside. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good. Annals of Mathematics Studies Number 7. Orange cardwraps. 196 pages. Ex-lib. Covers are creased and grubby. Contents clean. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer
Date Published: 1993-08-20
ISBN-13:9780387900933ISBN:0387900934
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Description: Very Good. No objectionable defects; average condition for its age. No underlining; no highlighting; no internal markings; previous owner's name on front cover. No spine creasing. Some shelf wear on edges, corners, and covers; 1 inch closed tear in margin of page 139; 4 inch crease at top fore edge corner of ffep and first 3 pages; some age discoloration on edges of book. Paperback. 1953 Trade paperback. read more
"I own at least a dozen books on various aspects of linear algebra, ranging from community college level textbooks (Anton) to treatments targeting specific industries such as computer graphics. Invariably, I end up poring over the relevant material in Halmos to ensure that both the exposition in some other text and my understanding of the topic is correct.
Time spent reading this relatively thin book is measured in "hours per page." It's time well spent."
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