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The Ones & Zero's that Changed The World
Boole's Masterpiece - Rare Presentation Copy
Boole (George) An Investigation into the Laws of Thought, 8vo L. & (Cambrus Walton & Maberly) 1854. First Edn. First Issue, errata leaf at end, occasional light spotting or dust marks, original black blind stamped cloth, covers a little damp marked. [Norman 266; Origins of Cyberspace 224] A very good copy of this rarity of modern science.
* Presentation Copy, inscribed, 'Mrs. Hill with the Author's respects. Boole was the first Professor of Mathematics at University College, Cork. This presumably is the first of the three issues identified by Norman: the first with Walton and Maberly imprint, errata at end, and binding as described above: the second still with imprint as above but with errata after preliminaries, an additional "note" leaf at end, publisher's catalogue at end, and differences to the binding; and a third (as in the Norman copy), with cancel title, new imprint, and third (as in the Norman copy), with cancel title, new imprint and green cloth binding with Boole's name on spine for the first time. A landmark of science. "Boole invented the first practical system of logic in algebraic form, which enabled more advances in logic to be made in the decades of the nineteenth century than in the twenty-two centuries preceding. Boole's work led to the creation of set theory and probability theory in mathematics, to the philosophical work of Peirce, Russell, Whitehead and Wittgenstein, and to computer technology via the master's thesis of C.E. Shannon (1937), who recognized that the true/false values in Boole's two valued algebra were analogous to the open and closed states of electric circuits. This invention of the binary digit or "bit" made possible the development of the digital computer" (Norman).
Today nearly everyone who uses a computer is familiar with Boolean Logic but the book that launched the theory is Extremely Rare. (1)
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The Ones & Zero's that Changed The World
Boole's Masterpiece - Rare Presentation Copy
Boole (George) An Investigation into the Laws of Thought, 8vo L. & (Cambrus Walton & Maberly) 1854. First Edn. First Issue, errata leaf at end, occasional light spotting or dust marks, original black blind stamped cloth, covers a little damp marked. [Norman 266; Origins of Cyberspace 224] A very good copy of this rarity of modern science.
* Presentation Copy, inscribed, 'Mrs. Hill with the Author's respects. Boole was the first Professor of Mathematics at University College, Cork. This presumably is the first of the three issues identified by Norman: the first with Walton and Maberly imprint, errata at end, and binding as described above: the second still with imprint as above but with errata after preliminaries, an additional "note" leaf at end, publisher's catalogue at end, and differences to the binding; and a third (as in the Norman copy), with cancel title, new imprint, and third (as in the Norman copy), with cancel title, new imprint and green cloth binding with Boole's name on spine for the first time. A landmark of science. "Boole invented the first practical system of logic in algebraic form, which enabled more advances in logic to be made in the decades of the nineteenth century than in the twenty-two centuries preceding. Boole's work led to the creation of set theory and probability theory in mathematics, to the philosophical work of Peirce, Russell, Whitehead and Wittgenstein, and to computer technology via the master's thesis of C.E. Shannon (1937), who recognized that the true/false values in Boole's two valued algebra were analogous to the open and closed states of electric circuits. This invention of the binary digit or "bit" made possible the development of the digital computer" (Norman).
Today nearly everyone who uses a computer is familiar with Boolean Logic but the book that launched the theory is Extremely Rare. (1)
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