Cleaning out books…

When Mom moved, I took a few of Dad’s college textbooks and reference books. The three I have encountered in the current cleaning process:
    • Handbook of Mathematical Tables and Formulas (Richard Stevens Burington, ed.)
    • Elements of Strength of Materials (S. Timoshenko & Gleason H. MacCollough)
    • Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus (William Anthony Granville, Percey Franklin Smith, and William Raymond Longley)

Alas, I cannot keep these forever. But I “preserved” the personalization inside the front cover by photographing them.

To the extent I still may need them occasionally, tables and formulas are readily available online, so I even got rid of my own 1980s volume … including its typographical error for the expansion of (a – b)³. Strength of materials is for mechanical engineers, not-so-much mathematical economists. I have my own college calculus textbook, as well as some other adequate reference books. So these books of Dad’s went away as a donation to the local public library for their regular fundraising book sales.

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[Mags]

So nice! Still have this chore ahead of me. Dad had lots and lots of books, but all his law books went to the attorney who took over his office.