Cambridge: C. J. Clay at the University Press, 1866. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THREE PAPERS BY THE 19th c. MATHEMATICIAN & LOGICIAN AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. “De Morgan exerted a considerable influence on the development of mathematics in the nineteenth century” (DSB, IV, 35). While De Morgan’s framework was conceptual..... More

Philadelphia: Franklin Institute, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION DODD’S 1926 CORRELATION COEFFICIENT CALCULATOR. The paper is accompanied by three illustrations and a photograph of his correlation machine. Stuart Dodd, a researcher at Princeton University, built a machine to automatically calculate correlations – a correlation calculator. Correlation is a statistical concept..... More

The Institute of Radio Engineers, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF A PAPER BY PRESPER ECKERT, et al. DESCRIBING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGH-SPEED MERCURY DELAY LINE MEMORY FOR COMPUTER APPLICATIONS. The acoustic delay line was invented by William Shockley in 1942 and developed by Presper Eckert..... More

Operations Research Society of America, 1959. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, full volume inclusive of many important papers: one of only two declassified papers written by the physicist Hugh Everett during his long tenure “analyzing the cost-benefits of global and limited nuclear warfare,” for the top secret Weapons Systems Evaluation Group..... More

Princeton University Press, 2008. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE CELEBRATED GREEN-TAO THEOREM. The theorem states that the prime numbers contain arbitrary long arithmetic progressions. For example, 5, 11, 17, 23, 29 is a sequence of five primes equally spaced, and so in arithmetic progression, the Green-Tao..... More

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co, 1928. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF RALPH HARTLEY'S FOUNDATIONAL PAPER ON INFORMATION THEORY -- work that was "the single most important prerequisite" for Shannon's theory of information" (Wikipedia). Shannon acknowledged his debt to Hartley in the first paragraph of his landmark 1948 paper..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1957. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST PRESENTATION OF THE MAXIMUM ENTROPY THEORY OF THERMODYNAMICS (MaxEnt). “These techniques are relevant to any situation requiring prediction from incomplete or insufficient data (e.g., image reconstruction, signal processing, spectral analysis and inverse problems)” (Wikipedia). Edwin..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MATHEMATICALLY CORRECT FORMULATION OF THE HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. In quantum mechanics, "the uncertainty principle is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, such..... More

New York: Journal of Philosophy, 1975. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF KRIPKE’S “FAMOUS AND HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL PAPER GREATLY [SHAPING] MOST LATER APPROACHES TO THEORIES OF TRUTH AND THE SEMANTIC PARADOXES” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Consequences of the Semantic Paradoxes). In his 1975 article "Outline of a Theory..... More

Princeton: Association for Symbolic Logic, 1959. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME, BOUND FIRST EDITION OF SAUL KRIPKE’S SEMINAL FIRST PAPER ON MODAL LOGIC, “A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic”. The paper presents Kripke’s important ideas on the semantics of modal logic, or the logic of modal notions like necessity and possibility..... 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, 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

Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A CLASSIC PAPER ON THE PROBLEM OF CAPITAL BUDGETING, THE 1955 FIRST PRESENTATION OF THE “LORIE-SAVAGE PROBLEM”. In this paper, Lorie and Savage use integer programming (Lagrangian methods in discrete optimization approach) to introduce the topic..... More