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Cambridge Mathematical Library Series

29 primary works • 29 total works
Cambridge's mathematical list includes many of the classics of mathematical literature, both textbooks and monographs. These are not only of considerable historical interest, but they also reflect a more concrete and less abstract approach to mathematics that is coming back into favour. Many mathematicians and libraries will want to have these volu…
Algebraic Graph Theory
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4.31 · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1974 · 7 editions
In this substantial revision of a much-quoted mono…

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    An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
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    4.25     · 52 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1967 · 14 editions
    First published in 1967, Professor Batchelor's cla…

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    Inequalities
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    4.39     · 18 Ratings · published 1952 · 15 editions
    This classic of the mathematical literature forms …

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    Methods of Mathematical Physics
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    4.75     · 4 Ratings · 1 edition
    This well-known text and reference contains an acc…

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    Theory of Algebraic Integers
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    4.83     · 6 Ratings · published 1996 · 6 editions
    The invention of ideals by Dedekind in the 1870s w…

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    Integral Geometry and Geometric Probability
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1984 · 7 editions
    Integral geometry originated with problems on geom…

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    Hydrodynamic Stability
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    4.33     · 6 Ratings · published 1981 · 15 editions
    This book begins with a basic introduction to thre…

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    Analytic Methods for Diophantine Equations and Diophantine Inequalities
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    4.67     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 9 editions
    Harold Davenport was one of the truly great mathem…

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    Thermodynamic Formalism Second Edition: The Mathematical Structures of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
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    4.40     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1978 · 8 editions
    Reissued in the Cambridge Mathematical Library, th…

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    Spline Functions: Basic Theory
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · 10 editions
    This classic work continues to offer a comprehensi…

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    A Course of Modern Analysis
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    4.55     · 22 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1927 · 114 editions
    This classic text has entered and held the field a…

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    Diffusions, Markov Processes, and Martingales: Volume 1, Foundations
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    4.38     · 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1979 · 8 editions
    Now available in paperback, this celebrated book r…

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    Diffusions, Markov Processes and Martingales: Volume 2, Itô Calculus
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    4.29     · 14 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1987 · 6 editions
    The second volume concentrates on stochastic integ…

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    Cambridge Mathematical Library Unknown
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    Transcendental Number Theory
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    4.00     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1975 · 6 editions
    First published in 1975, this classic book gives a…

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    A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
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    4.50     · 10 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1924 · 79 editions
    There can be few books on mathematical mechanics a…

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    Methods of Algebraic Geometry Volume 1
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1994 · 3 editions
    This classic work (first published in 1947), in th…

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    Methods of Algebraic Geometry, Volume 2
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1994 · 4 editions
    Volume 2 gives an account of the principal methods…

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    Methods of Algebraic Geometry: Volume 3
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1994 · 6 editions
    This work provides a lucid and rigorous account of…

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    Combinatorics on Words
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1983 · 5 editions
    Combinatorics on words, or finite sequences, is a …

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    Principia Mathematica to '56
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    3.98     · 213 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 1913 · 45 editions
    The great three-volume Principia Mathematica (CUP …

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    Trigonometric Series
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    4.60     · 5 Ratings · published 1935 · 4 editions
    Professor Zygmund's Trigonometric Series, first pu…

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    An Introduction to Harmonic Analysis
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    4.21     · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1968 · 10 editions
    Awarded the American Mathematical Society Steele P…

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    Weather Prediction by Numerical Process
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    4.33     · 6 Ratings · published 1922 · 23 editions
    The idea of forecasting the weather by calculation…

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    A Course of Pure Mathematics
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    4.21     · 183 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1908 · 155 editions
    There can be few textbooks of mathematics as well-…

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    Combinatorics: The Rota Way
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    4.50     · 4 Ratings · published 2009 · 11 editions
    Written by two of Gian-Carlo Rota's former student…

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    Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability
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    4.29     · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 14 editions
    Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability is part of …

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    Smooth Compactifications of Locally Symmetric Varieties
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · published 2010 · 6 editions
    The new edition of this celebrated and long-unavai…

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    The Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Sheaves
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 1997 · 11 editions
    Now back in print, this highly regarded book has b…

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