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A Treatise on Universal Algebra with Applications. Volume I
by Whitehead, Alfred North
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About This Item
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1898 First edition. No subsequent volumes were published. Publisher's navy blue cloth ruled stamped in blind with gilt-lettered spine. Large octavo. Spine extremities lightly worn, front endpapers and edges lightly foxed, as usual. A near fine copy, bright and tight. Whitehead's prelude to the three volume Principia Mathematica, which he wrote with Bertrand Russell in 1910-1913. Whitehead had planned a two-volume Universal Algebra just as Russell had planned a two-volume Principles of Mathematics (Volume I, 1903). Neither of them published a second volume to these works, abandoning them in favor of a collaboration on Principia. This volume is divided into seven books. In Book I, the general principles of the subject are discussed. Book II is devoted to the Algebra of Symbolic Logic. Book III deals with general principles of addition and the theory of the positional manifold. Book IV discusses principles of the Calculus of Extension. The final three books are devoted to the Calculus of Extension in relation to the theory of forces in a positional manifold of three dimensions, non-Euclidean geometry and the ordinary Euclidean space of three dimensions.
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- Bookseller
- Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17490
- Title
- A Treatise on Universal Algebra with Applications. Volume I
- Author
- Whitehead, Alfred North
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's navy blue cloth ruled stamped in blind with gilt-lettered spine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. No subsequent volumes were published
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- At the University Press,
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge:
- Date Published
- 1898
- Pages
- xxvi, 586 pp
- Size
- Large octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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