ZAREMBA Stanislaw - Theoretical arithmetic. Cracow 1912. academy of skills. 8, p. XX, 859....

ZAREMBA Stanislaw - Theoretical arithmetic. Cracow 1912. academy of skills. 8, pp. XX, 859. broch.
Covers slightly stained and rubbed, corner folds of the last two pages, folds and small losses of the spine. A continuation of the 1907 work "Outline of First Principles of the Theory of Integers." Opens chapter: "Preliminary remarks of a philosophical nature," leading to the conclusion: "The reader must come to terms with a fact lying in the very nature of mathematics, and consisting in the fact that the process of familiarizing oneself with this science may be compared rather with scrambling up a steep mountain on a rocky and precipitous path than with traveling along a postal road."