Adventures Among the Toroids
Okemos, Michigan: Published by the author, 1970. First edition. Tall perfectbound paperback (13" x 5"); 206 pp. A bizarre, nearly impenetrable book for the layperson (or at least for this cataloguer) written, illustrated and hand-lettered by the author in Chancery Script with Osmiroid pens. Sub-titled, "A study of quasi-convex, aplanar, tunneled orientable polyhedra of positive genus having regular faces with disjoint interiors, being an elaborate description and instructions for the construction of an enormous number of new and fascinating mathematical models of interest to students of euclidean geometry and topology, both secondary and collegiate, to designers, engineers and architects, to the scientific audience concerned with molecular and other structural problems, and to mathematicians, both professional and dilettante, with hundreds of exercises and search projects many completely outlined for self-instruction." A second edition was published in 1980, although both are scarce in the trade. Bonnie Stewart was a professor of mathematics at Michigan State University from 1940-1980 and the author of Theory of Numbers (1952). Covers are rubbed and a bit scratched; one small tear at crown; corners bumped; some very minor soiling along top edge (not affecting margins or text block at all); owner's name to front free endpaper, else clean and bright throughout. A Very Good copy of this influential and idiosyncratic book. Item #02357
Price: $350.00