Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay & Macmillan, 1847. First edition, very rare in commerce, of Boole’s first book, the birth of modern symbolic logic and the first presentation of ‘Boolean algebra’ – this is the copy of the great economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). “Boole’s work also contains what Bertrand Russell called..... More about The mathematical analysis of logic, being an essay towards a calculus of deductive reasoning
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London: Taylor, 1851. A fine copy, in original wrappers, of Boole’s first paper probability. The ideas he put forth in this work were later developed and included in his famous Laws of Thought (1854). “This seems to have been the first mention, by any author, of the close connection, both..... More about On the Theory of Probabilities, and in particular on Mitchell's Problem of the Distribution of...
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