So my dad got his B.S. (Augustana College, Sioux Falls) and Master's (University of North Dakota) in math in the 1960s, and then he taught briefly (Minot State College). He was drafted into the Army, met my mom, got married, and went to work for the state of South Dakota where he spent his career doing statistical analysis and projections.
He kept his student textbooks as well as the freebies publishers sent him when he was teaching. At least he kept them up until he and my mom moved. At that point he chucked the books.
I was a bit disappointed by this at the time, but I didn't think too much about it.
However, my dad passed away in February, and since I can't spend time with him anymore, I've been trying to reassemble the shelf of books he kept. At least those that I remember. It's a way of spending time with him after a fashion, or at least with his past.
Anyway, most of the books I remember are here:
(Side note: my dad probably would've offered me the books rather than tossing them if he knew that I had such strong memories of them. I was, frankly, fascinated by these books as a little kid--I was a precocious reader, and these books suggested a whole new world to explore, if only I could figure out what all those symbols meant).
Most of these books are readily available from eBay, AbeBooks, etc., and I've made a start getting them.
However, I'm looking for community help with a few titles... Basic College Algebra by William LeRoy Hart ( ) is nowhere to be found. Likewise, the Study Guide for Munem's Intermediate Algebra ( ), and Elbridge Vance's Modern Algebra and Trigonometry ( ).
If anyone has any suggestions on how I can find these books, that would be much appreciated!
The silly thing is I already know most of what's in these books--they offer nothing new now, but they're a link to my dad that I want to rebuild.
(P.S. I realize that Reddit is not exactly the forum for this sort of thing, but posting a "Looking to buy" ad on Facebook or Craigslist with these books listed is about as likely to succeed as standing on a street corner and shouting the list into the air.)
