Econometric Society, 1960. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF DANTZIG’S PAPER ON COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY. Dantzig’s work on the use of computational complexity aims to categorize problems by their solution difficulty is considered foundational (New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics). George Bernard Dantzig (1914-2005) was an American mathematician who..... More

1964. Journal issue in original wrappers. After first demonstrating three dimensional holography in 1962, Emmett Leith & Juris Upatnieks were, in this paper, the first to introduce the possibility of using holograms to record three-dimensional (3D) objects as well as the first to describe how to realize multicolor wavefront reconstruction..... More

American Physical Society, 1959. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF TWO PAPERS, ONE BY CHIEN-SHIUNG WU & ONE BY MURRAY GELL-MANN. Handsomely bound full volume. WU: Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. She was also known as the “First Lady of Physics,” “Madame Curie of..... More

1st Edition. FEYNMAN’S PIONEERING WORKS ON NANOTECHNOLOGY, 3 WORKS HOUSED IN A CUSTOM MADE CASE. Richard Feynman created the science of nanotechnology in his December 1959 speech at the American Physical Society and made further statements about the science in a February 1983 speech at Jet Propulsion Laboratories. The case..... More

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF BROWNIAN MOTION IN THE STOCK PRICES. While the theory was initially Louis Bachelier's, Maury Osborne made major corrections and extensions to Bachelier’s theory, was the first to study the technical analysis scientifically, the first to demonstrate the substantial contribution physics could..... 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

London: The Royal Society, 1843. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. 2 plates The plates have light stains; the text is bright and clean. Very good condition.Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among “his many achievements include work on planetary..... More

London: The Royal Society, 1857. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. Slight toning at the edges of the paper; minor. Near fine condition.Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among “his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean..... More

London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1819. 1st Edition. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF DULONG & PETIT’S DESCRIPTION OF THE DULONG-PETIT LAW, ONE THAT FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY WAS USED TO DETERMINE ATOMIC WEIGHTS. The “impressive consequences [of their work] are even more surprising if we bear in mind that..... More

Edinburgh: lLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, 1834. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND 1st EDITION (full volume) OF THE MOST EXTENSIVE CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF BABBAGE'S DIFFERENCE ENGINE No. 1, -- THE FIRST COMPLETE DESIGN FOR AN AUTOMATIC CALCULATING ENGINE” (Computer History Portal). The demonstration model of Babbage’s engine consisted of approximately 2,000 parts..... More

1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS BY BOHR ON HIS CONCEPT OF COMPLEMENTARITY. Bohr’s concept of complementarity was a key underpinning of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The concept includes the idea of wave-particle duality and that wave function collapse is linked to the..... More

NASA, 1969. 1st Edition. RARE 1st EDITIONS OF NASA’s ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE APOLLO 11 MISSION CONTROL TAPES RECORDING BOTH THE LANDING & THE MOON WALK -- the first issued TEN minutes after the lunar module landed, the second just following the moon walk itself. Very few of these were..... More