Charles frederick roos (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1934. First Edition. 275 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth with gilt design to front. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Errata slip to rear endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned with with mild foxing throughout. Slightly more pronounced to text block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Rubbing and scuffing to edges of boards and spine. Brown staining to both boards. Book has a slight forward lean. Library number to spine top edge.…

First edition, first printing, of this "brilliant combination of mathematical economic theory and applied econometrics". Charles F. Roos (1901-1958) was a professor of mathematics at Cornell from 1928 to 1931 and director of the Cowles Commission from September 1934 to January 1937. The Cowles Commission was founded in 1932 by economist and businessman Alfred Cowles (1891-1984) as an economic research institution. It was first based at Colorado Springs before moving to Yale University in 1955, where it was renamed the Cowles Foundation. The New Palgrave IV, pp. 219-20. Quarto. Original blue cloth, supralibros of Cowles Commission for Research in Economics to front cover. Ink ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Spine scuffed and faded, extending onto the heads of the covers, tips a little rubbed, otherwise a very good copy.…