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Colección Félix Recillas Juárez COLECCIÓN FÉLIX RECILLAS JUÁREZ DONADA EN JULIO DE 2010 A LA BIBLIOTECA SOTERO PRIETO DEL INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS Dr. Félix Recillas Juárez (1918-2010) México, Ciudad Universitaria, D. F. 2013 a colección bibliográfica del doctor Félix Recillas Juárez se recibió en calidad de donación en julio de 2010 en la Biblioteca Sotero Prieto del Instituto de Matemáticas. A partir de entonces, el personal académico de Lesta Biblioteca asumió el compromiso de organizar este acervo con la finalidad de registrarlo en los catálogos electrónicos del Sistema Bibliotecario Universitario y de la propia Biblioteca del Instituto. El objetivo: integrar estos libros a la colección general para ponerlos a disposición tanto de la comunidad matemática del Instituto como de la comunidad matemática mexicana. De tal manera que esta colección de libros ha sido registrada en el catálogo del Sistema Bibliotecario Universitario (Librunam) y en el catálogo electrónico local de la Biblioteca Sotero Prieto. Asimismo, este rico acervo en matemáticas fue ordenado en concordancia con el sistema de clasificación que usa el Sistema Bibliotecario de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Una de las finalidades de este repertorio es dejar constancia de que todos los libros que fueron donados a la Biblioteca Sotero Prieto, por parte de la familia del doctor Félix Recillas, se organizaron bajo rigurosos estándares de ordenamiento bibliográfico. Los libros de esta colección se distinguen por el sello distintivo que imprime la leyenda Donado por Félix Recillas, la que se estampó en algunas partes de las obras de esta colección. Cada libro tiene el proceso técnico necesario para solicitarlo en sala o a domicilio. Es decir, todos estos libros presentan una clasificación y un número de adquisición. Elementos que han permitido generar sus respectivos códigos de barra con el propósito de facilitarlos en préstamo automatizado a los usuarios que tienen registro en la Biblioteca, individuales o institucionales. Los usuarios externos sin registro podrán consultar estos libros únicamente en la sala de lectura o para fotocopiar, siempre y cuando a juicio del personal bibliotecario se observe que el material resiste este proceso sin el riesgo de dañar la obra. Respecto a este repertorio, los elementos bibliográficos que se registran de cada libro son: número de relación, autor, título y subtítulo (este último no todos los libros lo tienen), pie de imprenta, número de clasificación, número de ejemplar que tiene la Biblioteca (si es el caso), clave de la Biblioteca y número de adquisición asignado al libro en turno. Ver abajo los Ejemplos 1 y 2 de registros bibliográficos. Cuando la clasificación del libro presenta número de ejemplar significa que la Biblioteca Sotero Prieto ya tiene en sus acervos uno o más ejemplares de esa obra. En este sentido cabe destacar que varios libros de esta colección son ejemplares únicos. De una u otra manera, estos libros han enriquecido sustativamente los fondos bibliográficos de la Biblioteca Sotero Prieto, 1 beneficiando así a la comunidad del Instituto en particular y a la comunidad matemática mexicana en general. Con todo, la colección contiene libros publicados en varios idiomas, tales como: inglés, francés, alemán, español, italiano, portugués. Naturalmente que el idioma predominante es el inglés. En relación con las editoriales, varios libros fueron publicados por editoriales que han cesado sus actividades desde hace años, como las siguientes: W. A. Benjamin, F. Ungar, D. Van Nostrand Reinhold, Oliver and Boyd, Appleton-Century-Crofts, D. Reidel, Holden-Day, F. Vieweg, Saunders, Ginn & Company Harper & Row, Graylock Press y otras; o que han pasado a formar parte de otras empresas editoriales, como: Allyn & Bacon, CRC Press. M. Dekker, Academic Press, North-Holland, Kluwer Academic, Teubner Publisher… En virtud de la complejidad de algunas obras, 70 libros han quedado pendientes de catalogación y clasificación, motivo por el que a este acervo le falta proceso técnico para ponerlo a disposición del público usuario. En otros casos, no más de 10, las obras no son libros, sino fascículos de revistas.Y solamente en un caso, el libro como es de otra rama del conocimiento, no fue procesado. En relación con estos casos se hacen las anotaciones pertinentes en el presente repertorio. Finalmente, cabe mencionar que el trabajo de la organización física de esta colección la llevó a cabo el personal académico especializado en bibliotecología que labora en la Biblioteca del Instituto de Matemáticas, esto es, la Mtra. Angélica Guevara Villanueva y el Dr. Eric González Nando, bajo la coordinación del Dr. Felipe Meneses Tello, quien elaboró asimismo el presente repertorio bibliográfico. 2 Ejemplo No. 1 Número de relación Apellido y Nombre del Autor Título Subtítulo 1785. Blichfeldt, Hans Frederick Finite collineation groups: with an introduction to the theory of groups of operators and substitution groups Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1917. QA601 B97 Ej. 2 GM-38236 Pie de Imprenta: Número de ejemplar . Lugar de edición . Editorial Número de . Año de publicación Clasificación Clave de la Número de Adquisición Biblioteca Ejemplo No. 2 Número de relación Apellido y Nombre del Autor Título 1939. Warner, Frank W. Foundations of differentiable manifolds and Lie groups Glenview Illinois: Scott Foresman, 1971. QA614.3 W37 GM-38419 Pie de Imprenta: . Lugar de edición Clasificación . Editorial . Año de publicación Clave de la Número de Adquisición 3 Biblioteca EL REPERTORIO BIBLIOGRÁFICO 1. Lang, Serge SL2 (R) Reading, Mass: Addison Wesley, 1975. QA387 L34 Ej. 2 GM-36196 2. Griffiths, Phillip Introduction to algebraic curves Providence: American Mathematical Society, 1989. QA565 G74413 Ej. 2 GM-36197 3. Kempf, G. Et al. Toroidal embeddings I Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1973. QA571 T67 Ej. 2 GM-36198 4. Zariski, Oscar Algebraic surfaces Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1971. QA571 Z29 1971 Ej. 2 GM-36199 5. Shatz, Stephen S. Profinite groups, arithmetic, and geometry Princeton, N. J: Princeton University Press, 1972. QA171 S45 Ej. 2 GM-36200 6. Mumford, David Geometric invariant theory Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1994. QA564 M85 1994 Ej. 2 GM-36201 7. Fulton, William Intersection theory Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1984. QA564 F84 Ej. 3 GM-36202 4 8. Margulis, G. A. Discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1991. QA387 M37 Ej. 3 GM-36203 9. Lang, Serge Elliptic curves diophantine analysis Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1978. QA242 L33 Ej. 2 GM-36204 10. Schwartz, L. 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