‎Mukherjee, Neel‎
‎Choice‎

‎Sophie's Choice [Le Choix de Sophie]‎

‎Jonathan Cape | London 1979 | 16 x 24 cm | cartonnage de l'éditeur‎

‎Edition originale anglaise. Cartonnage de l'éditeur en pleine percaline noire. Exemplaire bien complet de sa jaquette imprimée et illustrée du portrait photographique de l'auteur, comportant deux petits manques sans gravité en haut du dos. Etonnant envoi autographe daté et signé de Meryl Streep, un an avant qu'elle interprète le rôle titre dans le film éponyme d'Alan J. Pakula, grâce auquel elle obtiendra l'oscar de la meilleure actrice en 1983 : "For Keith, thanks for an interesting afternoon, 16/10/1981, London" Ce «Keith» pourrait ainsi être Keith Barish, le producteur du film de Pakula qui a acheté les droits de Styron dès la parution du roman. Le choix de Meryl Streep pour le rôle de Sophie ne sera pris qu'au courant de l'été 1981 comme le révèle le New York times du 22 juillet 1981: «After a two-year search, Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline have been chosen to play the doomed lovers in the film version of William Styron's novel about a survivor of Auschwitz, ''Sophie's Choice.'' How and why they got the roles casts a certain amount of light on the way things are done in Hollywood. Mr. Styron's novel was purchased for approximately $750,000 in May 1979 by Keith Barish, a multimillionaire land developer who had decided to go into the movie business. It was the first property he acquired, and he bought it for the director Alan Pakula, who received an Academy Award nomination for ''All The President's Men.'' By mid-July, Lord Grade's Marble Arch Productions had agreed to make the book into a $10 million to $12 million motion picture. None of the three men most involved - Mr. Barish, Mr. Pakula and Martin Starger, president of Marble Arts - were exploiting a popular novel. All three saw the book as an important - perhaps great-motion picture. » L'»intéressante après-midi» in «London«évoquée par Meryl Streep dans sa dédicace pourrait donc être la conclusion de cet accord dans les bureaux de Lord Grade à Londres dont le Marble Arch Productions finance le film de 14 millions de dollars. Malgré l'absence de patronyme explicite, les circonstances, la date et le lieu mentionnés dans cette surprenante et très précoce dédicace permettent de déterminer avec certitude le dédicataire de celle-ci comme un des principaux responsables du casting de Sophie's Choice, et plus précisément Keith Barish, qui contribuera au choix de Meryl streep contre l'avis de Pakula qui lui préférait Magda Vasaryova. Exemplaire de présent unique comportant sans doute la première et signifiante dédicace de Meryl Streep sur ce chef-d'uvre qui deviendra un des plus grands films de sa carrière. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -‎

‎Chirkova Vera. Princess of the Kunitsa clan in four books. -Free choice. -Choic‎

‎Chirkova Vera. Princess of the Kunitsa clan in four books. -Free choice. -Choice of fate. -Choice of freedom. -Choice of path. In Russian /Chirkova Vera. Knyazhna iz klana Kunitsy v chetyrekh knigakh. -Svobodnyy vybor. -Vybor sudby. -Vybor svobody. -Vybor puti. Series: The Magic of Vera M. Exmo 2014-2015. What will the princess of the Kunitsa clan do when she hears in the middle of the night an uninvited guest trying to climb into her bedroom window? Will she be frightened and start calling for help, or will she just faint? Or will she jump out of bed and meet the brazen man as befits a noble maiden, a gift from a pot of the night or a greeting from a goat? Or will the guest turn out to be a stranger. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb39c89aa3a9cd89b6.‎

‎Gribachev N. M. Choice of the century: (Choice of the century. Nelson Rockefell‎

‎Gribachev N. M. Choice of the century: (Choice of the century. Nelson Rockefeller discovers America. October. Great turn. A word about Lermontov. Between yesterday and tomorrow). In Russian /Gribachev N. M. Vybor veka: (Vybor veka. Nelson Rokfeller otkryvaet Ameriku. Oktyabr. Velikiy povorot. Slovo o Lermontove. Mezhdu vchera i zavtra). Preface of the author. Design of the artist A. S. Zhitomirsky. Moscow. Pravda. 1983. 336 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb5e32a3a01888f4b3.‎

‎Démonstration de l'intégrabilité des équations différentielles ordinaires. - [THE PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE THEOREM - INTRODUCING THE AXIOM OF CHOICE]‎

‎Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1890. Orig. printed wrappers, no backstrip. A small offsetting to upper left corner of frontwrapper. A small tear to endwrapper repaired. In ""Mathematische Annalen. Gegenwärtig hrsg. von Felix Klein, Walter Dyck, Adolph Mayer, 36. Band, 2. Heft."" Pp. (153-)320. The whole issue (Heft 2) with orig.wrappers. Peano's paper: pp. 182-288.‎

‎First edition and the first appearance of this fundamental paper in which Peano gives the proof of the so-called ""Peano-Existence-Theorem"" and at the same time contains the first explicit statement of ""The axiom of choice"".The Peano-Existence-Theorem, or ""Cauchy-Peano-Theorem"" guarantees the existence of solutions to certain initial value problems. He first published the theorem in 1886 in ""Sull'integrabilita della equazioni differenziali del primo ordine"" in Atti Accad. Sci. Torino, 21, with an incorrect proof. The new correct proof appeared in this paper, as offered.""Peano's work in analysis began in 1883 with an article on the integrability of functions. The article of 1890 (the paper offered) contains notions of integrals and areas. Peano wasthe first to show that the first-order differential equation y' = f(x,y) is solvable on the sole assumption that f is continuous. His first proof dates from 1886, but its rigor leaves something to be desired. In 1890 this result was generalized to systems of differential equations using a different method of proof. This work is also notable for containing the first explicit statement of the axiom of choice. Peano rejected the axiom of choice as being outside the ordinary logic used in mathematical proofs."" (Hubert T Kennedy in DSB).‎

‎Beweis, dass jede Menge wohlgeordnet werden kann. (Aus einem an Herrn Hilbert gerichteten Briefe). - [INTRODUCING BOTH ""THE AXIOM OF CHOICE"" AND ""THE WELL-ORDERING THEOREM""]‎

‎Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1904. 8vo. Bound in half cloth with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. In ""Mathematische Annalen. Begründet 1868 durch von A. Clebsch und C. Neumann. 59. Band."" Small bar-code pasted on to top left corner of front wrapper. Two library labels pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and a small stamp to verso of title page. Pp. 514-16.‎

‎First appearence of this fundamental paper in metamathematics and mathematical logic in which he introduced both ""The Axiom of Choice"" and ""his sensational proof of the well-ordering theorem"" (DSB). By this paper Zermelo contributed decisively to the development of set-theory. Zermelo took up the problem, left over by Cantor, of what to do about the comparison of sets that are not well-ordered. ""In 1904 (the paper offered) he proved....that every set can be well-ordered. To make the proof he had to use what is now known as the axiom of choice (Zermelo's axiom), which states that given any collection of nonempty, disjoined sets, it is possible to choose one member from each set and so make up a new set. The axiom of choce, the well-ordering theorem, and the fact that any two sets may be compared as to size, are equivalent principles.""(Morris Kline). A controversy arose around ""The axiom of Choice"", from Bertrand Russell, Tarski, Frege, Hilbert, Brouwer and others, mainly, and of course importent, over how to interpret the words ""choose"" and ""exists"".The issue also contain the following papers of interest:David Hilbert. Über das dirichletsche prinzip. Pp. 161-186.Lie, Sophus. Drei Kapitel aus dem unvollendeten zweiten Bande der Geometrie der Berührungstransformationen. Pp. 193-313.Schoenflies, A. Beitrage zur Theorie der Punktmengen II, Pp. 129-160.‎