Leiden: Petrus Rammasenius, 1628. 3rd Edition. THIRD EDITION OF THE INVENTION & DESCRIPTION OF NAPIER’S BONES, THE 1st CALCULATING MACHINES & THE “PRECURSORS OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AND MODERN CALCULATING MACHINES AND COMPUTERS” (Printing and the Mind of Man 116). Napier’s invention, essentially a system of rods, offered a mechanical means for..... More

Baltimore: Waverley Press, 1953. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS of John Nash’s fourth and final paper seminal contribution to mathematics and non-cooperative game theory. In his 1950 paper on the subject, "Nash presented a bargaining solution that was completely unanticipated in the literature. Breaking with the past..... More

New York: 1924. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF “ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION THEORY” (Claude Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1948). Beginning with this lengthy twenty-two page paper (see Origins of Cyberspace 163), Nyquist’s nascent work ferreting out the necessary bandwidth requirements for the transmission..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1900. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL PAPER IN THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS, Pearson’s 'chi-squared' goodness of fit test, "one of the most useful of all statistical tests" and "one of Pearson's greatest single contributions to statistical methodology" (DSB). Pearson had found “the exact..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUME, HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS OF PEIRCE’S SEMINAL WORK IN THE STUDY OF LOGIC, HIS 1885 LOGIC OF QUANTIFIERS, AS WELL AS AN IMPORTANT PRECURSOR, HIS 1880 PAPER “OFTEN REGARDED AS THE FIRST PRESENTATION OF BOOLEAN ALGEBRA IN ITS MODERN FORM” (Grattan-Guinnes, ed..... More

Baltimore: John Hopkins University, 1886. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF POINCARE’S PROOF & A GENERALIZATION OF TWO THEOREMS OF KARL WEIERSTRASS, a German mathematician frequently cited as the ‘father of modern analysis.’ “Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was a mathematician, theoretical physicist and a philosopher of science famous for discoveries in several..... More

New York: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A SIGNIFICANT 2009 DEMONSTRATION OF SHOR’S QUANTUM FACTORING ALGORITHM ON A PHOTONICS CHIP; WITHBOUND, AN IMPORTANT STUDY ON GLOBAL WARMING.In the FIRST paper, Politi and his team successfully realized a semiconductor-based quantum computer — quantum computing on integrated..... More

London: Harrison & Sons, 1873. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF RIEMANN’S CLASSIC LECTURE ON CURVED SPACE, the foundational work of Riemannian geometry. Riemann’s lecture, presented on the 10th of June, 1854 and his first as an unsalaried lecturer at Göttingen is a seminal piece and one of the..... More

Leipzig: Barth, 1913. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ROSENTHAL’S IMPORTANT PROOF THAT THAT THE ERGODIC HYPOTHESIS IS INCORRECT FOR ANY MECHANICAL SYSTEM. In 1913, German mathematician Artur Rosenthal (1887–1959) set out to answer the question “Can a mechanical system eventually pass through ever point on the energy..... More

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF CLAUDE SHANNON’S FOLLOW UP TO HIS SEMINAL MASTER’S THESIS “frequently called the most important master's thesis of the twentieth century with respect to the influence it had on the development of the electronic and..... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF A 2004 PAPER USING BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE SAVING WRITTEN BY THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN ECONOMICS, RICHARD THALER. The plan the author’s put forth, ‘Save More Tomorrow’, has been implemented worldwide. “Thaler..... More

Menasha: Association for Symbolic Logic. 1st Edition. TWO FIRST EDITION ISSUES IN ORIGINAL WRAPS. In "Practical Forms of Type Theory," Alan Turing wished to "encourage 'mathematicians-in-the-street' to use notation and forms of argument which would safeguard their work from ambiguity and inconsistency; but to do this without forcing their work..... More

London: Williams and Norgate, 1880. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF OF THE JOINT FIRST PUBLICATION OF VENN DIAGRAMS (see below for clarification of concurrent publication). Venn diagrams provide an easy and better way of visualizing elements, information, sets, concepts, logical relationships, and even simply ideas. Essentially, they are illustrations that..... More