There are books whose publication I eagerly awaited, which eventually got published, and then eventually went out of print. Then years later not only did Dover republish them but they eventually went out of print at Dover! How's that for getting old?! I miss all those Victorian era (or slightly later) math books that Dover once published, not always so rigorous but full of fascinating formulas and examples, and all those exercises culled from old tripos exams and the like. They would be out there forever, so I thought, so I could buy any of them later, any time I felt like it. --Fred Kochman -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [math-fun] Fwd: [SIGMAA-HOM] Dover Republishes Moore on Zermelo Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 10:34:42 -0400 From: Robert Baillie <rjbaillie@frii.com> Reply-To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Yikes! You know you're old when Dover starts publishing books that you originally bought new! Thanks for the info. I'll check out their website to see what else they have. I'm glad they're still around. Bob Baillie --- Thane Plambeck wrote:
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Drucker, Thomas L. <druckert@uww.edu> Date: Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:45 AM Subject: [SIGMAA-HOM] Dover Republishes Moore on Zermelo To: "sigmaa-hom@lists.maa.org" <sigmaa-hom@lists.maa.org>
When I was a teenager, I bought all sorts of books on mathematics published by Dover, knowing that they weren’t hot off the press but appreciative of their making classics available. By now I’m seeing Dover publishing books that I did buy hot off the press, and I hope that a younger generation of teachers and students can take advantage of them. What brings this to mind is Dover’s having republished Gregory H. Moore’s ‘Zermelo’s Axiom of Choice’, originally published by Springer in 1982. It is one of the most impressive and important works in the history of logic with which I’m familiar, and it still sets a high standard for scholarship in the broader history of mathematics. Those historians who don’t havea copy of Moore’s book now have one fewer excuse. ****
Thomas Drucker****
University of Wisconsin—Whitewater****
druckert@uww.edu****
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