拍品 760
  • 760

BOOLE, AN INVESTIGATION OF THE LAWS OF THOUGHT... THE MATHEMATICAL THEORIES OF LOGIC AND PROBABILITIES, 1854

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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描述

  • An investigation of the laws of thought, on which are founded the mathematical theories of logic and probabilities. London: Walton and Maberly, 1854
FIRST EDITION (probably second issue), 8vo (224 x 138mm.), errata leaf at beginning, "note" leaf and 6pp. advertisements at end, modern blue morocco, occasional slight spotting at beginning and end

來源

bought from Jeremy Norman, San Francisco, 1980

出版

Tomash & Williams B198; Norman 266 (see note for issue points); Origins of Cyberspace 224

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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拍品資料及來源

"Boole invented the first practical system of logic in algebraic form... [His] 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 recognised 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).