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GEORGE BOOLE (1815-1864)
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. London and Cambridge: The University Press, Dublin for Walton and Maberly and Macmillan and Co., '1854' [but after 1856]. 8° (223 x 144 mm). 'Note' and 'Errata' leaves following 2E4, 16-page Walton & Maberly catalogue dated August 1856 bound in at the end. (Some variable spotting.) Original dark-brown cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London, boards blocked in blind with Oxford-rule border, Oxford-rule panel within trefoils, central lozenge with foliate corner- and side-pieces, spine gilt-lettered 'LAWS OF THOUGHT. WALTON AND MABERLY' and decorated in blind, lemon-yellow endpapers (extremities a little rubbed and chipped, ink-marking, splitting on joints and hinges, upper hinge reinforced with adhesive tape). Provenance: D. Coghett, Glenpangal (inscription on title) -- J.W. Brown, 1921 (pencilled inscription; date 31 January 1921 at end of text) -- occasional pencilled annotations, correcting errata on a few pages.
FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE OF BOOLE'S 'GREAT WORK ON MATHEMATICAL LOGIC' (DSB, II, p. 297). '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. The invention of the binary digit or "bit" made possible the development of the digital computer' (Norman). This copy is an early issue, combining internal and external characteristics of Norman's probable first and second issues; like the probable first issue, the errata leaf is bound at the end and the boards have a lozenge in the centre, but, like the probable second issue, this copy also has a 'Note' leaf and a catalogue dated 1856 bound in. Norman 266 (third or later issue); Origins of Cyberspace 224.
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. London and Cambridge: The University Press, Dublin for Walton and Maberly and Macmillan and Co., '1854' [but after 1856]. 8° (223 x 144 mm). 'Note' and 'Errata' leaves following 2E4, 16-page Walton & Maberly catalogue dated August 1856 bound in at the end. (Some variable spotting.) Original dark-brown cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London, boards blocked in blind with Oxford-rule border, Oxford-rule panel within trefoils, central lozenge with foliate corner- and side-pieces, spine gilt-lettered 'LAWS OF THOUGHT. WALTON AND MABERLY' and decorated in blind, lemon-yellow endpapers (extremities a little rubbed and chipped, ink-marking, splitting on joints and hinges, upper hinge reinforced with adhesive tape). Provenance: D. Coghett, Glenpangal (inscription on title) -- J.W. Brown, 1921 (pencilled inscription; date 31 January 1921 at end of text) -- occasional pencilled annotations, correcting errata on a few pages.
FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE OF BOOLE'S 'GREAT WORK ON MATHEMATICAL LOGIC' (DSB, II, p. 297). '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. The invention of the binary digit or "bit" made possible the development of the digital computer' (Norman). This copy is an early issue, combining internal and external characteristics of Norman's probable first and second issues; like the probable first issue, the errata leaf is bound at the end and the boards have a lozenge in the centre, but, like the probable second issue, this copy also has a 'Note' leaf and a catalogue dated 1856 bound in. Norman 266 (third or later issue); Origins of Cyberspace 224.
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