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AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS of CONTINUING INTEREST Bestselling Titles from AMS Chelsea Publishing

Recommended Text Matters Mathematical Basic Geometry I. N. Herstein and I. Kaplansky, University of George David Birkhoff and Ralph Beatley, Harvard Chicago, IL University, Cambridge, MA The book originates from lectures for nonmajors in mathematics which were expanded to give a text which could also be used as Offers a sound mathematical development … and at the same time general introductory material for mathematics students, especially enables the student to move rapidly into the heart of geometry. for future teachers … the authors have succeeded very well in —The Mathematics Teacher creating an adequate picture of mathematics for their audience, and Should be required reading for every teacher of geometry. … the topics chosen are optimal for their intentions. —Mathematical Gazette —Mathematical Reviews

1959; ISBN 0-8284-0120-9; 294 pages; Hardcover; All AMS 1978; ISBN 0-8284-0300-7; 246 pages; Hardcover; All AMS members $18, List $20, Order Code CHEL/120CI810 members $17, List $19, Order Code CHEL/300CI810

History of the Theory of Numbers Foundations of Analysis Edmund Landau Leonard Eugene Dickson, University of Chicago, IL Certainly no clearer treatment of the foundations of the number A monumental work … Dickson always has in mind the needs of the system can be offered … one can only be thankful to the author for investigator … The author has [often] expressed in a nut-shell the this fundamental piece of exposition, which is alive with his vitality main results of a long and involved paper in a much clearer way and genius. than the writer of the article did himself. The ability to reduce —American Mathematical Monthly complicated mathematical arguments to simple and elementary 1966; ISBN 0-8284-0079-2; 136 pages; Hardcover; All AMS terms is highly developed in Dickson. members $13, List $14, Order Code CHEL/79CI810 —Bulletin of the AMS Part 1: 1966; ISBN 0-8284-0086-5; 486 pages; Hardcover; All AMS members $23, List $26; Order Code CHEL/86.1CI810 Elementary Number Theory Part 2: 1966; ISBN 0-8284-0086-5; 803 pages; Hardcover; Edmund Landau All AMS members $23, List $26; CHEL/86.2CI810 1958; ISBN 0-8284-0125-X; 256 pages; Hardcover; All AMS Part 3: 1966; ISBN 0-8284-0086-5; 313 pages; Hardcover; members $18, List $20, Order Code CHEL/125CI810 All AMS members $23, List $26; CHEL/86.3CI810 Set: 1966; ISBN 0-8284-0086-5; 1602 pages; Hardcover; Recommended Text All AMS members $71, List $79; CHEL/86CI810 Algebra Saunders MacLane and Garrett Birkhoff The Theory of Matrices The book is clearly written, beautifully organized, and has an excel- F. R. Gantmacher lent and wide-ranging supply of exercises … contains ample Volume 1: 1959; ISBN 0-8218-1376-5; 384 pages; Hardcover; material for a full-year course on modern algebra at the undergrad- All AMS members $35, List $39, Order Code CHEL/131.HCI810 uate level. —Mathematical Reviews Volume 2: 1959; ISBN 0-8284-0133-0; 276 pages; Hardcover; 1993; ISBN 0-8284-0330-9; 626 pages; Hardcover; All AMS members $23, List $25, Order Code CHEL/133CI810 All AMS , List $33, Order Code CHEL/330CI810 Set: 1959; ISBN 0-8218-1393-5; 660 pages; Hardcover; All AMS members $30 members $53, List $59, CHELGANTSETCI810 Solved and Unsolved Problems Finite Groups in Number Theory Daniel Gorenstein, Northeastern University, Daniel Shanks Boston, MA 1993; ISBN 0-8284-1297-9; 305 pages; Hardcover; All AMS 1980; ISBN 0-8284-0301-5; 519 pages; Hardcover; All AMS members $25, List $28, Order Code CHEL/297CI810 members $45, List $50, Order Code CHEL/301CI810

Divergent Series G. H. Hardy, University of Cambridge, England 1991; ISBN 0-8284-0334-1; 396 pages; Hardcover; All AMS members $26, List $29, Order Code CHEL/334CI810

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