Timeline for Which W W Sawyer titles exist in non-English language editions?
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| Jun 10, 2020 at 20:20 | comment | added | Jeremy Rickard | No, no Spanish. I thought there was one on the .es site, but I wasn’t paying attention: it was Italian. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 20:11 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 13:37 | comment | added | user159323 | Thanks for this, @JeremyRickard. After typing "W W Sawyer" in inverted commas as the search term, I've now found the following at amazon.fr: Plaisir de Mathématiques, Voir et Comprendre les Mathématiques, and Introduction aux Mathématiques. Did you find any Spanish editions? On amazon.es I found Dutch, French, and Italian, but no Spanish. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 13:29 | comment | added | Jeremy Rickard | Searching for "WW Sawyer" on amazon.fr I found several French translations of his books. Also a handful of foreign translations on the .it, .de, .es., .nl and .jp sites (although on the Spanish site it first gave me results on professional wrestling and I had to assure it that I really did mean "WW Sawyer" and not "WWE Sawyer"). | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 12:28 | comment | added | user159323 | Many thanks, @GerhardPaseman. Please can you post a link to your search that indicates "at least five" non-English editions of Prelude to Mathematics. (That would look good in an answer, but if the URL is long then it still might fit in a comment if you choose not to write your name redundantly when it is there in your handle anyway, or if you do want it to be displayed twice then not to insert a humorous middle moniker.) | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 23:10 | answer | added | Margaret Friedland | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 17:34 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Using Wikipedia and the ISBN link in the article on Sawyer, within minutes I found the Karlsruhe Virtueller Katalog, which is an interface to many European catalog systems, and includes WorldCat. Using Prelude to Mathematics, I found links to catalog entries in five different languages, indicating at least five different language versions. I recommend you try this path. Gerhard "Check Out The Search Fields" Paseman, 2020.06.09. | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 17:01 | comment | added | user159323 | @GerhardPaseman - His best-known titles weren't academic. Searching on "W W Sawyer" at WorldCat.com brings up some of his titles but only in English. What similar catalogues do you recommend? The WorldCat engine has no "published by" field, but even if it did I have no idea who published any non-English language editions. | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 16:20 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | This is more of a question for Academia stackexchange than for this forum. You should be able to access WorldCat and similar catalogues to find out this information. Searching by published by and author combination sounds promising. Gerhard "Consult Your Local Librarian (Distantly)" Paseman, 2020.06.09. | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 15:48 | history | edited | user159323 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2020 at 15:45 | comment | added | user159323 | Many thanks for this, @IgorKhavkine. Ferguson may not identify specific languages, but she does say that Mathematician's Delight was translated into 10 and Prelude to Mathematics into six, giving grounds for confidence that his works were indeed much translated. | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 15:20 | comment | added | user159323 | @JeremyRickard - Yes. His author number at Amazon is B001ITYQIY. That company's .es, .fr, .de and .it sites only list works by him in the original English. | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 12:24 | comment | added | Igor Khavkine | The article by Ferguson is in the Way Back Machine, but is also scant on the details. web.archive.org/web/20160502065642/http://news.utoronto.ca/… | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 12:19 | comment | added | Jeremy Rickard | Have you tried searching on non-English language Amazon sites? | |
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