Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
RARE FIRST EDITION OF ABBOTT’S CLASSIC. More about Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from “Passages from the life of a philosopher.”
EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS; PRECEDING THE APPEARANCE IN “PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER”. More about A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from “Passages from the life of a philosopher.”
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An essay towards the calculus of functions
FIRST EDITIONS, journal issues, of Babbage's two most important contributions to mathematics, essentially founding the general theory of the calculus of functions. More about An essay towards the calculus of functions
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Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese [Planck’s Law and Light Quantum Hypothesis]. WITH: Wärmegleichgewicht im Strahlungsfeld bei Anwesenheit von Materie
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the presentation of "Bose-Einstein statistics." More about Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese [Planck’s Law and Light Quantum Hypothesis]. WITH:...
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Entwurf einer verallgemeinerten Relativitätstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation. [Outline of a Generalized Theory of Relativity and of a Theory of Gravitation]
FIRST EDITION, COMMERCIAL OFFPRINT ISSUE, of Einstein’s breakthrough work on general relativity: the famous “Entwurf” paper. More about Entwurf einer verallgemeinerten Relativitätstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation. [Outline...
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Elementorum
RARE HISTORICALLY-IMPORTANT EDITION OF THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL MATHEMATICAL TREATISE: THE FIRST "COMMANDINO" EDITION. More about Elementorum
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Vegetable Staticks: Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables (1727); I: Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks and II: Statical Essays: containing Hæmastaticks (1731–33)
FIRST EDITION AND FIRST COMPLETE TWO-VOLUME EDITION OF LANDMARK STUDIES ON CIRCULATION IN PLANTS AND HUMANS [PMM 189]. More about <i>Vegetable Staticks: Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in...
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Du Système Social Et Des Lois Qui Les Régissent; Élémens De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul Intégral; Traité De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul Intégral; Philosophie Zoologique; et al.
IMPORTANT BOOKS FROM ADA LOVELACE’S LIBRARY, INCLUDING TWO CALCULUS BOOKS AND A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT PRESENTATION COPY TO HER: In demonstrating the breadth of Lovelace’s intellectual curiosity and revealing the connective tissue of her mind, this collection of books forms a solid intellectual core on which future academic consideration of Lovelace’s..... More about Du Système Social Et Des Lois Qui Les Régissent; Élémens De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul...
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Ueber die Bestimmung des Inhaltes eines Polyëders (1865). WITH: Theorie der elementaren Verwandtschaft (1863) [The Möbius Strip]
FIRST EDITIONS (JOURNAL ISSUES IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS) OF TWO LANDMARK PAPERS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOPOLOGY, IN WHICH IN WHICH, AMONG OTHER THINGS, MÖBIUS DESCRIBED THE MÖBIUS STRIP, DEFINED THE TOPOLOGICAL CONCEPTS NOW KNOWN AS GENUS AND ORIENTABILITY, AND SHOWED THAT ALL CLOSED ORIENTABLE SURFACES OF A PARTICULAR GENUS..... More about Ueber die Bestimmung des Inhaltes eines Polyëders (1865). WITH: Theorie der elementaren...
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Arithmetices Principia Nova Methodo Exposita
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF PEANO’S MOST IMPORTANT WORK, CONTAINING THE “PEANO AXIOMS” FOR THE NATURAL NUMBERS; OF SEMINAL IMPORTANCE IN MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL LOGIC. More about Arithmetices Principia Nova Methodo Exposita
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On the Criterion that a Given System of Deviations from the Probable in the Case of a Correlated System of Variables is such that it Can Reasonably Be Supposed to have Arisen from Random Sampling
FIRST EDITION of one of the most important papers in the history of statistics, introducing the ‘chi-squared’ test of goodness of fit, "one of the most useful of all statistical tests" and "one of Pearson's greatest single contributions to statistical methodology" (DSB). More about On the Criterion that a Given System of Deviations from the Probable in the Case of a Correlated...
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Quesiti, et Inventioni Diverse
FIRST EDITION OF TARTAGLIA’S MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO MATHEMATICS, INCLUDING HIS RULE FOR SOLVING CUBIC EQUATIONS. More about Quesiti, et Inventioni Diverse
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Proof of the Ergodic Theorem. WITH: Proof of the Quasi-Ergodic Hypothesis. WITH: Physical Applications of the Ergodic Hypothesis. WITH: Recent Contributions to the Ergodic Theory
IMPORTANT PAPERS – IN BOTH OFFPRINT AND JOURNAL FORMATS – RELATED TO VON NEUMANN’S PROOF OF THE ERGODIC THEOREM, A FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTION TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS. More about Proof of the Ergodic Theorem. WITH: Proof of the Quasi-Ergodic Hypothesis. WITH: Physical...
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