London, and Cambridge: Walton and Maberly; Macmillan & Co., 1854. First edition, first issue (see below). In this main work of Boole’s he gave the first proper presentation of Boolean algebra – “Boole invented the first practical system of logic in algebraic form, which enabled more advances in logic to..... More
Item #3906
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
Item #4294
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’. “Boole’s work also contains what Bertrand Russell called the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century: the nature of pure mathematics” (OOC)..... More
Item #4365
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
Item #2974