FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Alan Guth's landmark paper introducing the concept of "cosmic inflation," a new cosmological model he called 'inflation theory'. Though just a theory for 30 years, Guth's paper "utterly transformed scientific thinking about the origin of the universe" (Focus: Landmarks, The Inflationary Universe). In March... More

Princeton: Association for Symbolic, 1959. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression in original wrappers of issue #4 of the 1959 Journal of Symbolic Logic. This, the December issue, includes important abstracts of Kripke papers received by the Journal in 1959: “Distinguished Constituents”, “Semantical Analysis of Modal Logic”, “The Problem of..... More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF 6 FAMOUS PAPERS THAT SCHRODINGER HAD PUBLISHED A YEAR EARLER: including “Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem”, Parts I-IV, and “Über das Verhältnis der Heisenberg-Born-Jordanschen Quantenmechanik zu der meinen” (all in Annalen der Physik. This work bears the ownership signature..... More

London: Macmillan & Sons, 1967. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the first tentative measurement of a CMB anisotropy, a slightly elevated temperature in the direction of a known quasar cluster. Wilkinson & Partridge’s paper presents results “which appear to set rather stringent limits on the magnitude of..... More

1954. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF TWO PAPERS BY BELLMAN MARKING THE BIRTH OF DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING. “These are the seminal papers by Bellman on Dynamic Programming. The first is a 141-page report on dynamic programming and the second is a speech on the theory underlying it. Richard... More

American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPS, NEAR FINE CONDITION. 1st EDITION OF TWO (within a single journal issue) SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS, one by Bohr & Wheeler and one by Oppenheimer & Snyder. BOHR & WHEELER'S "The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission" is the first... More

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPPERS OF DANTZIG’S FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION (in two papers) OF HIS ‘SIMPLEX’ METHOD OF LINEAR PROGRAMMING, one of the most important algorithms of the 20th century. Note that while the 1951 publication of a paper by the National Bureau of Standards is sometimes cited as..... More

London: Macmillan, 1886. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION WITH TWO WORKS BY FRANCIS GALTON. Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (1822-1911) was a Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin..... More

American Statistical Association, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ULAM & METROPOLIS’S MONTE CARLO METHOD, “A NUMERICAL METHOD OF SOLVING MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS BY TH SIMULATION OF RANDOM VARIABLES. It performs simulation of any process whose development is influenced by random factors, but also if the given problem..... More

World Scientific, 1990. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF HAWKING’S TWO PAPERS DISCUSSING BABY UNIVERSES & BLACK HOLES. In his own words: “How can a black hole give off radiation. How can anything get out through the event horizon of a black hole. The answer is, the Uncertainty..... More

American Physical Society, 1981. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF “THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ALCHEMICAL EXPERIMENT IN HISTORY” (Valijak, Vintage News, 2017). Seaborg and his team transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold for the first time by accelerating carbon and neon nuclei to near light speed and... More

London: The Royal Society, 1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE LITTLEWOOD-RICHARDSON RULE. Offprints are prized because they are separately printed by journals and frequently issued in small quantities intended only for the author’s use and distribution to colleagues. “In mathematics, the Littlewood–Richardson rule is a combinatorial..... More

London: The Royal Society, 1944. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A PAPER BY LITTLEWOOD ON INVARIANT THEORY. Offprints are prized because they are separately printed by journals and frequently issued in small quantities intended only for the author’s use and distribution to colleagues. “Dudley Ernest Littlewood..... More