London: Macmillan & Sons, 1967. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION, full volume, 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

Austin: 1892. Second Edition. SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF LOBACHEVSKIAN GEOMETRY. Lobachevsky created, developed and presented what has come to be known as Lobachevskian geometry in 1826. The document offered here is the second edition of the first English language translation of Lobachevsky's paper that was..... 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, 1842. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. 2 plates The plates with very light toning 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..... More

London: The Royal Society, 1853. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. 2 plates; 1 large fold-out plate. The plates are toned; there is very slight toning at the edges of the paper; minor. Very good condition.Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer..... More

London: The Royal Society, 1856. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. This Airy paper contains the results of examination of the compass in two iron-built ships, and a general theory of the effect of the transient induced magnetism of iron in disturbing the direction of the compass-needle. Other than small tear..... More

Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns Verla, 1928. 1928. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF ONE OF THE CLASSIC BOOKS OF ROCKET LITERATURE. This well-illustrated work -- the cover alone is gorgeous -- is dedicated to Fritz von Opel, sponsor of the renowned Opel-Rocket car that had been inspired by the Austrian rocketry pioneer..... More