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Washington, 1963-64. 8vo. The two complete volumes 50 and 51 of the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' in contemporary half cloth bindings + original printed wrappers.
8vo, br. ed. 400pp. Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once and for all? Galloping through centuries of wild speculation and ingenious, sometimes macabre anatomical investigations, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb reveals how we came to our present state of knowledge. Our latest theories allow us to create artificial memories in the brain of a mouse, and to build AI programmes capable of extraordinary cognitive feats. A complete understanding seems within our grasp. But to make that final breakthrough, we may need a radical new approach. At every step of our quest, Cobb shows that it was new ideas that brought illumination. Where, he asks, might the next one come from? What will it be?
Cambridge, University Press, 1949. Orig. full cloth. XXVI,327 pp.
N.Y., Dover Publ., (1986). Orig. wrappers. XI,322 pp.
Chicago, Open Court, 1902. Small 8vo. Orig. full red cloth, gilt. A rather faint dampstain along first hinge on frontcover, otherwise fine. VII,143 pp.
Chicago, Open Court, 1902. Small 8vo. Orig. full red cloth. Wear to topof spine. Old owners name on title-page. VII,143 pp., textfigs. Clean and fine.
... Hardcover, 1938, good condition, with lightly rubbed red boards. No dust jacket Lightly tanned spine. Scratch near top of spine. Some bumping and tanning. Otherwise, tight, unmarked, but owner signature. Townsend translation. Howard Eves comments (se
23.5x15.5 cm. IX+185 pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly chafed. Spine slightly chafed at bottom edge. Else in good condition.
156pp.with ills., 26cm., in the series "Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der Wetenschappen" year 13 no.36, original softcover, G, W73156
large 8vo, br. ed. A global survey of the history of mathematics, this collection of 32 articles traces the subject from AD 1000 to 1800
London, Macmillan & Co., 1946. 8vo. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Nature. No. 4015, Saturday, October 12, 1946, Vol. 158"". A fine and clean copy. [Hartree:] Pp. 500-6. [Entire offered issue: Pp. 495-528].
8vo, br. ed. 356pp. The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact in biology, physics and psychology. Themes recur - determinism, inference, causality, free will, evidence, the shifting meaning of probability - but in dramatically different disciplinary and historical contexts. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centres on how these technical innovations remade our conceptions of nature, mind and society. Written by an interdisciplinary team of historians and philosophers, this readable, lucid account keeps technical material to an absolute minimum. It is aimed not only at specialists in the history and philosophy of science, but also at the general reader and scholars in other disciplines.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, (1817). Contemp. full calf. Leather at spine ends gone. Spine worn. Frontcover detached from spine. Large folded handcoloured map as frontispiece ""Plan of the Manor of North Hill"". Engraved titlepage with engraved vignette.XII,304 pp. + Publisher's Announcements. 14 engraved plates (incl. frontisp.), textillustrations and textdiagrams. Some scattered brownspots.
1920 First edition. No dust jacket. Hard cover, olive boards. Clean, tight, unmarked. Slight compression of the spine bottom. A lovely example of an important collection. ...
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 226pp
In-8°, 4 volumi in uno: (4), 28; (1), iv, (88); 168pp, IV carte di tavola ripiegate; (1), iv, 138, V carte di tavola ripiegate; 26, una carta di tavola ripiegata. Numerose tabelle nel testo. Legatura in piena pelle coeva, titolo in oro al dorso su tassello in marocchino, nervature. Prima ed unica edizione, buona copia. Da esperto matematico qual era, Emerson dedica la sua attenzione alle permutazioni, chiamati fattoriali solo nel 1808 da Kremps. In-8th, 4 volumes in one: (4), 28; (1), iv, (88); 168pp, IV folding plates ; (1), iv, 138, V folding plates; 26, a folding plate. Numerous charts in the text. Coeval calf binding, gilt title on the back on a morocco label, bands. First and only edition, fair copy. As a mathematical expert, here Emerson devotes his attention to permutations, called factorials only in 1808 by Kremps.
London, A. Millar, 1756. (Reprint N.Y., Chelsea, 1967). Orig. full cloth. XII,368 pp. A few pencil-undrlinings.
London, Frank Cass & Co., 1967. Small 4to. Orig. full cloth. XXVI,256,(1) pp.
London, 1718. (1987). 4to. Full cloth. (4),XIV,175 pp.
In-8°, iii (i.e. viii), 128, (1), 16. Legatura in piena pelle coeva, titolo in oro al dorso su tassello in marocchino, nervature. Prima edizione, buona copia. Thomas Simpson (1710-1761) fu un matematico inglese conosciuto per il suo lavoro sull’interpolazione e gli integrali numerici. La ‘Regola di Simpson’ gli viene attribuita, sebbene lui stesso l’accreditò a Isaac Newton. In-8°, iii (i.e. viii), 128, (1), 16. Contemporary calf binding, gilt title on the spine, morocco label, bands. First edition, fair copy. Thomas Simpson (1710-1761) was a British mathematician known for his work on interpolation and numerical integration. “Simpson’s Rule” is attributed to him, but he himself credited Isaac Newton for it.
In -8°, pp. (8), 114, brossura editoriale. Prima edizione del lavoro del matematico inglese sulla distribuzione dei numeri primi, considerato un classico nella matematica del Novecento, fu anche l’unico scritto pubblicato da Ingham in volume. La prima edizione si esaurì rapidamente, ma l’autore non volle collaborare a una ristampa considerandolo un lavoro troppo impegnativo. Lo si legge nel suo lungo necrologio sul “Times”: “Ingham could never be persuaded to prepare a second edition. The partial rewriting necessary to bring it up to date would have meant, with his exacting standards, more toil than he could face”. L’autore del necrologio aggiunge, subito dopo, che “Ingham was the embodiment of meticulous accuracy”. First edition of this work of the English scientist on prime numbers distribution, it’s considered a classic in XX century mathematics: it’s also the only one work published by Ingham in a volume. The author, as we read in his “Time” obituary, “could never be persuaded to prepare a second edition. The partial rewriting necessary to bring it up to date would have meant, with his exacting standards, more toil than he could face. Ingham was the embodiment of meticulous accuracy”.
N.Y., McGraw-Hill, 1940. Orig. full cloth. Edges with traces of use. XII,583 pp.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, (1966). Orig. full cloth. VIII,762 pp. Clean and fine.
N.Y., Wiley & Sons, (1952). Royal8vo. XIX,631 pp.
London, Hodgson & Son, 1932. Royal 8vo. Entire volumes 33+34 of ""Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series"" bound together in a very nice contemporary blue full cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt ex-libris (""Belford College. Univ. London"") to spine. Very minor bumping to extremities. Binding tight and in excellent, very nice, clean, and fresh condition in- as well as ex-ternally. Small circle-stamp to pasted-down front free end-paper and to title-page of volume 33 (""Bedford College for Women""). Discreet library-markings to upper margin of pasted-down front free end-paper. Pp. 195-208. [Entire volumes: (´Vol. 33, 1932:) (4), 563, (1) pp." " (vol. 34, 1932:) (6), 562 pp.].
