Kevin’s Books

One of the great friends that I made in my time at Vanderbilt University was Kevin Blount. Kevin knew all the graduate students and professors, and often hosted dinners and movies at his nearby apartment.
Kevin ended up writing his Ph.D. dissertation On the Structure of Residuated Lattices with Constantine Tsinakis, and moved on to an academic position at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.

Kevin passed away on May 30, 2006, which surprised all of us. I had just moved back East, and so one of the first trips was attending his memorial service at Sacred Heart.

At the end of 2008, Kevin’s wife, Xiaoyu, gave me Kevin’s math books. After some brief discussions with some mathematical colleagues, the books ended up being stored in my attic. I’m now offering these books to those who knew Kevin. I am sure that Kevin would have been happy to have his math books shared among his friends and colleagues, and I hope that this will help keep Kevin’s memory alive in the mathematical community.

If you are interested in some of the books below, leave a comment or contact me privately. I’ll send them your way. (Pardon the typos – I’ll correct those as they are noticed).

Kevin’s Math Books

1. Albert, Introduction to Algebraic Theories, Matt Insall
2. Artin, Geometric Algebra, Tracts in Mathematics Number 3 – John Raymonda
3. Baumslag and Chandler, Group Theory
4. Bennet, Affine and Projective Geometry
5. Bjarni Jonsson, Topics in Universal Algebra, Lecture Notes, Vanderbilt University, 1969-70 – John Snow
6. Bollobas, Graph Theory, GTM 63, Matt Insall
7. Bond/Keane, An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Instructors
8. Bondy and Murty, Graph Theory with Applications, Matt Insall
9. Bonele, Non-Euclidean Geometry, Dover
10. Bourbaki, Elements of Mathematics, General Topology, Part 1, Addison Wesley
11. Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, Princeton
12. Curry, Foundations of Mathematical Logic, Dover
13. Dieudonne, Introduction to the Theory of Formal Groups, Dekker
14. Gruenberg and Weir, Linear Geometry, Van Nostrand
15. Hodel, An Introduction to Mathematical Logic – Jan Gałuszka
16. Hall, The Theory of Groups, Macmillan
17. Springer, Geometry and Analysis of Projective Spaces
18. Sternberg, Lectures on Differential Geometry, Prentice Hall
19. Hennie, Introduction to Computability
20. Lang, Introduction to Algebraic Geometry, Tracts in Mathematics Number 5 – John Raymonda
21. Hochschild, Introduction to Affine Algebraic Groups
22. Nagaia, Local Rings, Tracts in Mathematics Number 13
23. Spanier, Algebraic Topology
24. Lipschitz, Discrete Mathematics, Schaum McGraw Hill
25. Solutuion Manual for, Brooks/Cole
26. Curtis Clark, An Approach to Graph Achievement Games: Ultimately Economical Graphs
27. Hungerford, Algebra, Springer 73 – John Snow
28. Mendelson, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, 3e, Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Mathematics Series
29. Moore, Elementary General Topology, Prentice-Hall
30. Mitchell, Theory of Categories, Academic Press, Matheamtics XVII
31. Herken, The Universal Turing Machine, Oxford – John Snow
32. ??, Fundamental Concepts of Algebra, Addison Wesley
33. Kelley, General Topology, Van NostrandO??, Theory of LIE Groups, Princeton
34. Munkres, Elements of Algebraic Topology
35. Sawyer, A Geometric Approach to Abstract Algebra, Freeman
36. McCoy, Rings and Ideals – John Raymonda
37. Smullyan, First-Order Logic, Dover
38. Veblen and Young, Projective Geometry, Volume 1
39. Gelfond, Transcendental & Algebraic Numbers, Dover – John Snow
40. Freese & McKenzie, Commutator Theory for Congruence Modular Varieties – Jonathan Farley
41. Davey & Priestley, Introduction to Lattice and Order, Cambridge – John Snow
42. An Algebraic Introduction to Matheamtical Logic, GTM 52 – John Snow
43. Categories for the Working Mathematician, GTM 5 – John Snow
44. Manin, A Course in Mathematical Logic, GTM 53
45. Burris/Sankappanavar, A Course in Universal Algebra, GTM 78 – John Snow
46. Hirsch, Differential Topology, GTM 33
47. Gaum, Elements of Point Set Topology, Prentice-Hall
48. Bourbaki, Elements of Mathematics, General Topology Part 2
49. Eisenberg, Topology, Holt Rinehart Winston
50. Pareigis, Categories and Functors
51. Kaplansky, Set Theory and Metric Spaces – John Raymonda
52. McKenzie, McNulty, Taylor, Algebras, Lattices, Varieties, Volume I, Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Matheamtics Series, – Jonathan Farley
53. Monk, Mathematical Logic, GTM 37 – John Snow
54. Lightstone, Symbolic Logic and the REAL NUMBER SYSTEM – John Snow
55. The Essentials of Logic
56. Halmos & Givant, Logic as Algebra – Jan Gałuszka
57. Jacobson, Lectures in Abstract Algebra, I Basic Concepts, Van Nostrand – John Raymonda
58. Husain, Introduction to Topological Groups, Matt Insall
59. Tarski, Introduction to Logic and to the methodology of deductive sciences, Dover
60. Church, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Princeton – John Snow
61. Rosenbloom, an introduction to Symbolic Logic, Dover
62. Krantz, How to Teach Mathematics: a personal perspective
63. Thomas Rishel, Teaching First – A Guide for New Mathematicians, MAA
64. Hobby and McKenzie, The Structure of Finite Algebras, AMS Comm 76, – Jonathan Farley