Fighting Chances: The History of Game Theory from Zermelo to Thaler by [GAME THEORY]; [COURNOT, ANTOINE AUGUSTIN; ZERMLEO, ERNST; NASH, JOHN FORBES; AUMANN, ROBERT; SHAPLEY, LLOYD; THALER, RICHARD]. First edition. Very Good. UNPARALLELED COLLECTION CHARTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GAME THEORY ACROSS THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY. Click on the PDF to view the complete list of the collection's contents.. Fighting Chances: The History of Game Theory from Zermelo to Thaler is an extensive collection of works documenting the history of game theory-including its mathematical development as well as its many important real-world applications. Game theory studies how decisions are made through mathematical modelling, an...">
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 Fighting Chances: The History of Game Theory from Zermelo to Thaler

Fighting Chances: The History of Game Theory from Zermelo to Thaler

by [GAME THEORY]; [COURNOT, ANTOINE AUGUSTIN; ZERMLEO, ERNST; NASH, JOHN FORBES; AUMANN, ROBERT; SHAPLEY, LLOYD; THALER, RICHARD]

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First edition. Very Good. UNPARALLELED COLLECTION CHARTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GAME THEORY ACROSS THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY. Click on the PDF to view the complete list of the collection's contents.. Fighting Chances: The History of Game Theory from Zermelo to Thaler is an extensive collection of works documenting the history of game theory-including its mathematical development as well as its many important real-world applications. Game theory studies how decisions are made through mathematical modelling, and is found in everyday life across all industries and disciplines. It uses various forms of modelling to find the optimal strategy in competitive situations of uncertainty and incomplete knowledge-in effect, how to minimize questions of chance and risk in our decision-making processes. Game theory offers insights into a diverse range of fields, and can helped to determine the effects of political coalitions, business conglomerates, product pricing, voter distribution, jury selection, animal behaviour… Read More
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On the Origin of Great Nebulae. WITH: Energy Production in Red Giants
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On the Origin of Great Nebulae. WITH: Energy Production in Red Giants

by GAMOW, GEORGE; TELLER, EDWARD

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Lancaster and New York: American Institute of Physics. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINTS. nb. Very Good. RARE FIRST EDITION OFFPRINTS of Gamow and Teller's early papers on cosmology, including "a kind of blueprint" for Gamow's later theory of the Big Bang. In "On the Origin of Great Nebulae," "written jointly with Edward Teller, his friend and colleague at George Washington University, Gamow dealt for the first time explicitly with the Friedmann-Lemaitre equations. The two authors concluded that, 'our theory of nebular formation requires that the velocity of expansion remains nearly constant while the distances between nebulae increase by a factor of 600.' In the last section, they considered the cosmological consequences which they discussed from the form of the fundamental (Friedmann-Lemaitre) equation for the expanding universe as given by Richard Tolman in his important textbook of 1934… [and concluded]: 'Thus in order to understand the formation of… Read More
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Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons

Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons

by GELL-MANN, MURRAY

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Lancaster, PA and New York, NY: American Inst, 1962. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of Murray Gell-Mann's Nobel-Prize winning work on the discovery of the "Eightfold Way" "Gell-Mann, as naturalist, collector, and categorizer, was well primed to interpret the exploding particle universe of the 1960s. New technology in the accelerators- liquid hydrogen bubble chambers and computers for automating the analysis of collision tracks- seemed to have spilled open a bulky canvas bag from which nearly a hundred distinct particles had now tumbled forth. Gell-Mann and, independently, an Israeli theorist, Yuval Ne'eman, found a way in 1961 to organize the various symmetries of spins and strangeness into a single scheme. It was a group, in the mathematicians' sense of the word, known as SU(3), though Gell-Mann quickly and puckishly dubbed it the Eightfold Way. It was like an intricate translucent object which, when held to the light, would reveal families of eight or ten or possibly twenty-seven… Read More
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An Enquiry concerning Political Justice and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

An Enquiry concerning Political Justice and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

by Godwin, William

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London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of one of the most important political tracts of the 18th century. "The Enquiry was, and remained, the work by which [Godwin] was best known. It was one of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of socialist and anarchist doctrine. Godwin believed that the motives of all human action were subject to reason, that reason taught benevolence, and that therefore all rational creatures could live in harmony without laws and institutions. Believing in the perfectibility of man, he thought that our virtues and vices may be traced to the incidents which make the history of our lives, and if these incidents could be divested of every improper tendency, vice would be extirpated from the world" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 234). London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793. Quarto, early three-quarters vellum over marbled boards. Two volumes. Without half-titles. Internally clean, boards with… Read More
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Large Albumen Photograph

by GRANT, ULYSSES S.

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First edition. Framed photograph. Very Good. MAGNIFICENT LARGE ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF ULYSSES S. GRANT BY ABRAHAM BOGARDUS. An unusually large late (c.1880) photograph of Grant, post-presidency, in formal dress, sitting and in partial profile. Mounted on thick card with the photographer's credit and address ("A. Bogardus / 872 Broadway, NY") on matte below the photo. The photographer, Anthony Bogardus, was a photographic pioneer, described by the New York Times as "the best-known photographer in the United States" in his prime who took "the first photographs of Gen. Grant, Gen. Hancock, Samuel D. Morse, inventor of the telegraph; Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher, and other equally well-known men." The engravers Currier & Ives produced an engraving based on this photograph, calling it "the last and best taken of General Grant". This very large (approximately 10x16 inches; 10.5x16.5 with mount) photograph also appears to have served as… Read More
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by GRANT, ULYSSES S.

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Rome: Henri Le Lieure, 1878. First edition. Framed. Very Good. ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF GRANT IN MILITARY DRESS, SIGNED BY GRANT ON THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S MOUNT. A very handsome bust-length portrait of Grant taken by photographer Henri Le Lieure during Grant's visit to Rome in 1878. Signed "U.S. Grant" in ink on the original mount beneath the photograph. A handwritten note on the paper backing of the frame reads: "This photograph was autographed by U. S. Grant in April 1878 at the home of Dr. Charles McMillan, Counsel General (Great Uncle of Eunice) in Rome, Italy. Dr. McMillan had served as Medical Director on Grant's staff throughout the Vicksburg Campaign." The frame, with the seal of "The Dayton Company Picture Galleries Minneapolis", on the backing likely dates from early-mid 20th century. (The Dayton Company was a celebrated Minneapolis department store in Minneapolis from 1911-1962, ultimately serving as the parent company for Target.) Grant visited Rome on his hugely successful… Read More
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Travels with my Aunt [AND] The Honorary Consul
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Travels with my Aunt [AND] The Honorary Consul

by GREENE, GRAHAM

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London: Bodley Head, 1969. First edition. Original cloth, original dust jacket. Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES FROM GREENE TO HIS GOOD FRIEND JOHN CARTER. Both books are inscribed: "For John with love from Graham". John Carter (1905-1975), the respected author, book-seller, and one of the most respected bibliophiles off the era, was a close personal friend of Greene's. The Honorary Consul, Greene's Argentinian thriller and one of his favorite books, is inscribed on the front free endpaper; Travels with my Aunt, one of Greene's most enduring works (the novel has been adapted for both the stage and the screen) is inscribed on the title page. Travels with my Aunt also has John Carter's bookplate on the front pastedown and a note (presumably by Carter) in pencil "received November 1969". Provenance: Christie's 27 October 1995, lot 60, The Library of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard; Sotheby's London, 24 March 1976, lot 326. Travels with my Aunt: London: The Bodley Head, 1969. Octavo,… Read More
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Commerce of the Prairies
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Commerce of the Prairies

by Gregg, Josiah

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New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with only New York in imprint), complete with large folding map. One of the most valuable and comprehensive sources for understanding pioneer life in the Great Plains and Southwest. The large folding map is the first to display the Staked Plains of Texas. Hailed as a cartographic landmark, it includes the locations of forts, military roads, and trading posts. It also identifies the Oregon Trail and Native American settlements, and traces the routes of the earlier explorers Boone, Long, Pike, and Cooke. Convinced that a journey west was necessary to restore his health, Josiah Gregg, in 1831 set out from Missouri on the first of what was to become eight journeys across the prairies. An acute observer, Gregg took careful notes of the geography and geology of the Southwest, and the attitudes and culture of the people (including particularly valuable insights into the Indians of Texas and New Mexico). Over a… Read More
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On the correlation of physical forces: Being the substance of a course of Lectures delivered in...
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On the correlation of physical forces: Being the substance of a course of Lectures delivered in the London Institution in the year 1843

by GROVE, WILLIAM ROBERT

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London: Charles Skipper. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of Grove's proposal of the conservation of energy: "the earliest general account of the principle." In 1842, "Sir W.R. Grove, English judge and man of science, known by his invention of a voltaic cell, explained in a lecture the idea of the interrelation of natural powers, an elaborated it in a book published in 1846 under the title of The Correlation of Physical Forces. This and the independent study in 1847 by the great German physiologist, physicist and matematician H.L.F. von Helmholtz, Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft, contained the earliest general account of the principle now known as the 'conservation of energy'" (Dampier, A History of Science). "In this essay... Grove argued that all physical forces such as electricity, heat, light, magnetism, and so forth, should be regarded as being correlated, or mutually inter-related. Any one of these forces could be used to… Read More
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Experimenta Nova

by Guericke, Otto Von

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Amsterdam: Johanned Jansson Waesberge. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC CLASSICS: "Describes the invention of the air pump and the famous experiment with the Magdeburg hemispheres, in which two teams of eight horses were employed in an attempt to pull apart two copper hemispheres from which the air had been withdrawn. Guericke also describes the invention of the first electrical machine, which generated the first visible and audible electric charges" (Honeyman). "In 1650 Guericke constructed the first air pump, which he used to create a vacuum in various containers. He showed that sound would not travel in a vacuum, and furthermore that a vacuum would not support combustion or animal life. In 1654 Guericke gave an impressive demonstration in front of the emperor Ferdinand III, of the force of atmospheric pressure. Two identical copper hemispheres 12 feet (3.66 m) in diameter were joined together. When the air was pumped out, 16 horses could… Read More
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