The major part of this volume has been translated from Karl Marx, Mathematicheskie Rokopsii, edited by Professor S.A. Yanovskaya, Moscow 1968 (referred to in this volume as Yanovskaya, 1968). This contained the first publication of Marx s mathematical writings in their original form, alognside Russian translation. (Russian translation of parts of these manuscripts had appeared in 1933.) We have included the first English translation of Part I of the Russian edition, comprimising the more or less finished manuscripts left by Marx on the differential calculus, and earlier draft of these. We have not translated Part II of the 1968 volume, which consisted of extracts from and comments on the mathematical books which Marx had studied. Professor Yanavoskaya, who had worked on these manuscripts since 1930, died just before the book appeared. We include a translation of her preface, together with six Appendices, and Notes to Part I. In addition, we include the following: The Material from Yanovskaya 1968 has been translated by C. Aronson and M. Meo, who are also responsible for translating the review by E. Kol man. The letters between Marx and Engels, and the article by Yanovskaya and Kol man, are translated by R. A. Archer.
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