London: Taylor and Francis, 1853. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of an important and consequential paper in which John Couch Adams announces new mathematical methods in dealing with the pertubations of the Moon, and in so doing corrects Laplace's famed 1788 memoir. Laplace studied the Moon's mean rate of motion relative..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1856. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF RARE AND PARTICULARLY CURIOUS PAPER OFFERING DETAILED IMPROVEMENTS TO SCHEUTZ'S FULLY FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF BABBAGE'S DIFFERENCE ENGINE by one of Babbage’s “most vigorous detractors” (Computer History Website). The credit of inventing the first computing machines goes to..... 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..... More
1883. 1st Edition. Second, deluxe edition of “Ampère’s greatest work,” Theorie Mathematique… or Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience (DSB). Widely referred to as “the Principia of Electrodynamics,” with this work Ampère founded the science of electrodynamics, now known as electromagnetism. “Volta’s invention of..... More
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1855. 1st Edition. Full volume. RARE FIRST PRINTING OF BABBAGE’S REPORT ON SCHEUTZ’S DIFFERENCE CALCULATOR. Babbage thought so highly of Scheutz’s engine that in an effort to promote [it], presented a talk on it before the Academie des Sciences. In the talk, Babbage describes the machine’s construction and..... More
London: Macmillan Limited, 1965. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A “CLASSIC” PAPER ON THE PROBLEM OF CAPITAL BUDGETING, THE 1965 BAUMOL-QUANDT MODEL. Project selection is a major problem in managerial decision making. Capital budgeting problems determine which project to fund given constraints on available capital. This much..... 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
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard Ltd., 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF “THE FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ON THE APPLICATION OF AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER TO COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY” AND CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE INVESTIGATION (Christies, Origin of Cyberspace Auction, 2005, 139). A brief summary was published in the Manchester Conference..... More
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1941. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (full volume) OF A PAPER CITED BY CLAUDE SHANNON “AS ONE OF HIS SOURCES OF THE SAMPLING THEOREM” (Butzera, Multiplex signal transmission and the development of sampling techniques” Applicable Analysis, January 2008, 1437). One year after publication of..... More
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1941. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS, the FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER CITED BY CLAUDE SHANNON “AS ONE OF HIS SOURCES OF THE SAMPLING THEOREM” (Butzera, Multiplex signal transmission and the development of sampling techniques” Applicable Analysis, January 2008, 1437). One year..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1889. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF BOLLEE’S PAPER DETAILING THE CALCULATING MACHINE WHICH EMBODIED A MULTIPLICATION TABLE. The Bollee machine “could be considered the direct ancestor of the Millionaire”... “the first commercially successful mechanical calculator that could perform a direct multiplication” (Wikipedia). “Most early calculating machines carried out..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1844. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME BOUND FIRST EDITION WITH BOOLE’S IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS & ROSSE’S OBSERVATIONS OF ‘CRAB NEBULA’ AS WELL AS HIS WELL KNOWN RENDERING. GEORGE BOOLE: “The English mathematician and philosopher George Boole (1815-1864) was one of the..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1909. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF RARE DESCRIPTION OF LUDGATE’S ANALYTICAL ENGINE; FULL VOLUME WITH ORIGINAL WRAPS BOUND IN. In 1909, working entirely on his own and only as a ‘hobbyist’, completely unaware of Charles Babbage’s designs, Dublin accountant P. E. Ludgate (1883-1922) designed an..... More
London: Taylor and Francis. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF BOYS’ INTEGRAPH, AN ANALOG COMPUTING DEVICE THAT MECHANICALLY PLOTTED THE INTEGRAL OF A GRAPHICALLY DEFINED FUNCTION. Sir Charles Vernon Boys (1855-1944) was an innovative, fastidious, British physicist and inventor who received many honors and awards. A noteworthy development..... More
Cambridge: Royal Society, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (extracted from the 1859 Philosophical Transactions) OF THE PAPER IN WHICH CAYLEY “LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY” & “DEMONSTRATED THAT EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY WAS PART OF PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY RATHER THAN THE CONVERSE” (Pierpont, "Cayley’s Definition of Non-Euclidean Geometry," AJM 53, 1, 1931..... More
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London: Royal Society. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF ALL 10 OF CAYLEY’S ‘MEMOIRS ON QUANTICS’, a complete set extracted from 1854 to 1878 Philosophical Transactions and handsomely bound in half calf over period appropriate boards. Included are Introductory Memoir upon Quantics, 1854, 13 pages; 2nd Memoir, 1855, 25 pages; 3rd..... More
London: Royal Society, 1858. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME INCLUSIVE OF MANY IMPORTANT PAPERS & 71 PLATES. Included are Cayley’s paper on matrices marks “an epoch in the development of the subject” (Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, 476). Gassiot’s paper “was particularly important..... More
1st Edition. THE FOUR-COLOUR (Color) PROBLEM (OR THEOREM) IS “THE FIRST MAJOR THEOREM TO BE PROVED USING A COMPUTER” (Lamb, Having Fun with the 4-Color Theorem, Scientific American, March 1, 2013). Because the problem had “resisted the attempts of able mathematicians for over a century…when it was successfully proved in..... More
Paris: Bachelier Successeur Courcier, 1822. 1st Edition. SCARCE 1822 FIRST EDITION of the work in which the mathematician Charles Dupin first introduced a nonspherical surface with the property that all its lines of curvature were circular. Dupin called this surface a 'cyclide.' Recently, cyclides have been revived for use as..... More
Econometric Society, 1952. 1st Edition. Complete issue. FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL WRAPS of the 1st PAPER DESCRIBING THE PIONEERING USE OF LINEAR PROGRAMMING TO OPTIMIZE THE OUTPUT OF A REFINERY. Charnes, Cooper, and Mellon formulated the blending of blending aviation gasolines as a linear programming problem. Their work, presented in the..... More
London: Macmillan, 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Francis Crick's and William Cochran's letter to the editors of Nature in which they previewed the important calculations that enabled them to predict the X-ray diffraction pattern produced by a crystal with a helical shape whose atoms are arranged..... More
San Francisco. FIRST EDITION OF THE 1st PRESENTATION of CTSS, the "Compatible Time-Sharing System" operating system written by a team of MIT programmers led by Prof. Fernando J. Corbato. Their work “helped pave the way for the personal computer, as well as the computer password” (Hafner, Fernando Corbató, a Father..... More
1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF PART II ONLY OF ALLAN CORMACK’S SEMINAL INVENTION OF A MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUE FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY (CAT Scans) – TOGETHER, THESE TWO PAPERS DOCUMENT THE INVENTION OF THE CAT SCAN. Cormack’s work produced the most revolutionary development in the field of..... More
Amsterdam: Mortier, 1747. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF D’ARCY’S PROPOSED AN EARLY VERSION OF THE CONCEPT OF CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM FOR ORBITING BODIES. Extract in fine condition housed in a custom pamphlet case; text block complete. “In physics, angular momentum is the rotational equivalent of linear momentum. It is..... More
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