Search Results: Titles starting with S from Atticus Rare Books

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF A 2004 PAPER USING BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE SAVING WRITTEN BY THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN ECONOMICS, RICHARD THALER. The plan the author's put forth, ‘Save More Tomorrow', has been implemented worldwide. "Thaler has a long body of work contributing to our understanding of Economics and business and consumer decision making" and this paper is noted in the Nobel Committee's ‘advanced information' (Nobel Prize Committee). Note that we offer two other Richard Thaler papers separately, "Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show" in The American Economic Review 98 No. 1 pp. 38-71, March 2008 and "Libertarian Paternalism" in The American Economic Review 93 No. 2 pp. 175-179, May 2003. Thaler's work, including that in this paper, has been devoted to integrating economics with psychology. Thaler "has incorporated psychologically realistic assumptions into… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF FOUR VERY IMPORTANT PHYSICS PAPERS, TWO OF WHICH CONFIRMED DE BROGLIE'S HYPOTHESIS ON THE WAVE NATURE OF MATTER. Davisson and Thomson shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals" (Nobel Prize Portal). (1) DAVISSON & GERMER'S 1927 confirmation of de Broglie's hypothesis --the first observation of the wave nature of electrons. de Broglie's wave-particle duality hypothesis and this 1927 confirmation were major steps forward in the experimental confirmation of quantum mechanics. Though Davisson's discovery was somewhat "accidental", it is considered the "definitive confirmation of de Broglie's hypothesis" (L'Annunziata, Radioactivity, 428; Brush, Making 20th Century Science, 224). (2) THOMSON & REID's purposefully set out to prove de Broglie's hypothesis, the wave nature of the electron. Together they designed an instrument to observe diffraction effects, specifically using… Read More

Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1957. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPER DEMONSTRATING THE FIRST USE OF INELASTIC NEUTRON SCATTERING TO STUDY SPIN WAVE DISPERSION RELATIONS" (Callaway, Quantum Theory of the Solid State, 321). Brockhouse's technique enabled the study of excitations in solids and his work remains of practical and theoretical import and is now available for use in many differing types of systems. Bertram Brockhouse, a Canadian physicist, shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with American physicist Clifford Shull "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter" (Nobel Prize Committee). The Committee went on to not that Brockhouse's half of the prize was "for the development of neutron spectroscopy" and Shull's half was "for the development of the neutron diffraction technique" (ibid). "Atomic nuclei are composed of protons and neutrons. Brockhouse and Shull developed… Read More

Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1920. 1st Edition. First edition bound extract of a paper, The Propagation of Sound in Partially Dissociated Gases, "that is a bit off the beaten track for Einstein though its subject, fluids (liquids and gases) is one he dabbled in throughout his life" (Calaprice, Einstein Almanac). Weil 110; Boni 119. Recognizing that while the "chemical equilibrium properties of gases were well understood, precise knowledge of the velocity of gas reactions was not sufficiently available," Einstein sought to establish a method for the calculation of the rate of chemical reactions in a gas by means of observations on the propagation of sound (Mason, Physical Acoustics, 13). CONDITION & DETAILS: Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften. Octavo. First edition, bound extract. The binding is marbled paper boards over black cloth. Inside and out, near fine condition.

FIRST EDITION OF MURRAY GELL-MANN'S SEMINAL PAPER POSITING THE IDEA OF ‘QUARKS' INSIDE THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS. Bound full volume. Gell-Mann took nearly a year to write this short, Nobel Prize winning paper, and yet in it, three quarks later named ‘up,' ‘down,' and ‘strange' "explained phenomena that theorists had been puzzling over for years" (Crease, The Second Creation, 283). "A landmark in contemporary physics, the eight-paragraph note is a model of scientific prose: brief, logical, achingly clear, so tightly and modestly drawn that its full scope may elude the reader. In the first line, the author sets forth his intention: "If we assume that the strong interactions of baryons and mesons are correctly described in terms of the broken eightfold way, we are tempted to look for some fundamental explanation of the situation." And then he did just that. Gell-Mann's paper "explained how various combinations of three particles from a triplet could produce baryons (such as protons and neutrons),… Read More

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1959. First Edition. FIRST ed., ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, THE GENOME ISSUE featuring features articles on technological developments in genome research, clinical applications, and concerns regarding the social impact of rapidly accumulating genetic information. The following papers are included: Fraser, C. M. et al., "The Minimal Gene Complement of Mycoplasma genitalium," provided a model of the minimum number of genes needed for independent existence. And "Mycoplasma genitalium genome, report the complete sequencing of the bacterium with the smallest known genome of any self-replicating organism. Goffeau, Andre, "Life with 482 Genes," discusses the achievement of the above. Crystal, Ronald et al. "Transfer of Genes to Humans: Early Lessons and Obstacles to Success," provides an overview of relevant clinical trials and concludes that the therapeutic transfer of genes into humans is feasible and should be pursued. [Two separate reports also in this… Read More

Bruxelles: H. Thiry-Van Buggenhoudt, 1866. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF A LARGE & IMPORTANT STUDY BY ADOLPHE QUETELET ON THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN BELGIUM. Quetelet was one of the founders of sociology and his "impact on nineteenth century thinking can in a certain sense be compared with Descartes's in the seventeenth century" (DSB XI, p.237). Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) was a mathematician, astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for his application of statistics and probability theory to social phenomena. He was the founder of the Brussels Observatory and the first to apply the statistical normal distribution to characteristics of human populations. His goal was to understand the statistical laws underlying such phenomena as crime rates, marriage rates or suicide rates. He wanted to explain the values of these variables by other social factors. In 1835 Quetelet's work ushered in a new era in statistics began. It presented a new technique of statistics or, rather,… Read More

Washington DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST USE OF MUON RADIOGRAPHY TO SEARCH PYRAMIDS. Luis Walter Alvarez (1911-1988) used cosmic rays to search for hidden chambers in the pyramids and in the paper offered here, Alvarez describes the experiment and its results. In 1968 he was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics 1968, the first Latino to do so. Specifically, the award noted " his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis" (Nobel Prize Committee). Early in his scientific career, Alvarez, always an experimental physicist, worked concurrently in the fields of optics and cosmic rays. Beginning in 1967, he began to devote much of his time to the study of cosmic rays - this, just as "scientists [were] first [starting to use] the tools… Read More

Minneapolis: Physical Review, 1928. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF SLATER'S 1928 SUGGESTION FOR SOLVING THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM FOR ATOMS CONTAINING MULTIPLE ELECTRONS. The Schrödinger equation presented the world with ‘the three-body problem' - "the state of motion cannot be solved analytically for systems in which three or more distinct masses interact" (Tsuneda, Hartree-Fock Method, 35). Two years after Schrödinger's publication, Hartree presented the Hartree method, a method that solved the equation for multiple-electron systems based on fundamental physical problems. Immediately following Hartree's publication, Slater, while on the faculty at Harvard, made a study of its accuracy. In the American physicist John Clarke Slater's 1928 abstract, he says as much: "The method proposed by Hartree for the solution of problems in atomic structure is examined as to its accuracy as a method of solving Schrödinger's equation" (Slater, 1928, 339). Slater believed that the first step in discussing… Read More

London: Royal Society, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT OF DOUGLAS HARTREE'S DEVELOPMENT OF THE "SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD METHOD TO THE CALCULATION OF ATOMIC WAVE FUNCTIONS OF POLYELECTRONIC ATOMS" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, VI, 147). "Hartree played a fundamental role in the field of twentieth-century numerical analysis and its application to theoretical physics" (ibid). "The mid- to late 1920s was a time of great change and excitement in theoretical physics, and Hartree was becoming a well-known figure in the field. When news of Erwin Schrödinger's work on wave mechanics reached Cambridge, Hartree was ideally placed to make a contribution...His experience of numerical integration of differential equations, gained during his ballistics work in World War I, was invaluable. Hartree was able to develop and apply numerical techniques to the solution of increasingly complex atomic structures" (ibid). By 1939 and with the publication of this paper, Hartree made "his chief contribution… Read More

New York: AAAS, 2001. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, JOURNAL ISSUE IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF THE 1st PUBLICATION & ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 1st COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCE OF A LIVING SPECIES, inclusive of Venter's poster of the genome sequence itself. The genome sequence of Haemophilus influenzae used a newly developed technique of whole-genome shotgun sequencing was 1.8 million base pairs in length and required 4 months of sequencing to produce. The entire issue is dedicated to the announcement of the sequencing of the human genome. Until March 2000, rival teams of scientists who had been working independently to map the complete sequence pooled their data: American-born biochemist-geneticist J. Craig Venter and his colleagues at Celera Genomics and, working with a public consortium (under the direction of the NIH, known as the Human Genome Project (HGP), geneticist Francis Sellers. Together, an amalgam of public and private researchers was able to successfully map and sequence the human genome. This… Read More

New York: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A SIGNIFICANT 2009 DEMONSTRATION OF SHOR'S QUANTUM FACTORING ALGORITHM ON A PHOTONICS CHIP; WITHBOUND, AN IMPORTANT STUDY ON GLOBAL WARMING. In the FIRST paper, Politi and his team successfully realized a semiconductor-based quantum computer — quantum computing on integrated on an optical device. Named after the mathematician Peter Shor, Shor's algorithm is a quantum algorithm — an algorithm that will run on a quantum computer. "Shor's quantum factoring algorithm finds the prime factors of a large number exponentially faster than any other known method, a task that lies at the heart of modern information security, particularly on the Internet. This algorithm requires a quantum computer, a device that harnesses the massive parallelism afforded by quantum superposition and entanglement of quantum bits (or qubits)" (Politi, Science, 2009, 1221). Working at the University of Bristol in 2009, Politi's team employed "a compiled… Read More

Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 1991. 1st Edition. Issued on the occasion of the conference, "Psychoanalysis and Culture: The Contributions of Sigmund Freud," held at Stanford University, January 11-13, 1991. Along with the items noted in the title, also included are essays by Haskell F. Norman, M.D., Roy A. Ginsburg, M.D., and Paul Robinson. CONDITION & DETAILS: Tall 8vo. 10.75 x 7.75 inches (27cm x 19.5cm). 81 pp. Bound in original stiff grey printed wrappers lettered at the spine and on the front cover. Frontispiece portrait of Freud and illustrations throughout. Bright and very clean inside and out. Pristine.

London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1982. 1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITION OF WOOTTERS' & ZUREK'S NO CLONING THEOREM &THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT PAPER DISCUSSING TELEPORTATION. Note that we also offer this paper in its original paper wrappers. The no-cloning theorem is one of the earlier results in the study of quantum information. Published in 1982, Wootters and Zurek's paper proved that quantum cloning - the ability to manifest an identical copy of an arbitrary unknown quantum state -- is not possible and that "the linearity of quantum mechanics forbids such replication and that this conclusion holds for all quantum systems" (Wootters & Zurek, 1982, 802). In short, the no cloning theorem argues that it is impossible to copy quantum information without the initial state being altered in the process. Put another way, "the theorem states that it is not possible to ‘clone' a quantum system to create an identical copy of a system while preserving the original" (Binder, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics,… Read More

Cambridge: Royal Society, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (extracted from the 1859 Philosophical Transactions) OF THE PAPER IN WHICH CAYLEY "LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY" & "DEMONSTRATED THAT EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY WAS PART OF PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY RATHER THAN THE CONVERSE" (Pierpont, "Cayley's Definition of Non-Euclidean Geometry," AJM 53, 1, 1931, 117; Princeton Companion to Mathematics, 772). Cayley's ‘Sixth Memoir upon Quantics' "contains the first analytical treatment of a projective metric from the standpoint of the algebraic theory of invariants" (Biagioli, Space, Number, and Geometry, 123). Beginning with an introductory memoir in 1854, Cayley "composed a series of ten ‘Memoirs on Quantics,' the last published in 1878, which for mathematicians at large constituted a brilliant and influential account of the theory as he and others were developing it" (DSB, III, 165). [Note that we offer all ten memoirs together in a separate listing]. Quantics is "a term [Cayley] coined for… Read More

E. B. Spooner & Sons, 1865. Rare limited edition: No. 36 of 50 printed. Complete. 4to. Tightly and handsomely bound in three-quarter morocco over marbled boards; gilt-lettered and ruled at the spine; marbled endpapers. Minor scuffing at the edge tips. Very good condition.

The MIT Press, 1969. 1st Edition. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Atlas has been prepared by the staff of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Available in this atlas are magnitude, spectral class (in most cases), precise coordinates, proper motion, and Durchmusterung number. The total number of atlas stars slightly exceeds 260,000. It can be used by the professional astronomer to work on asteroids, comets, or artificial satellites. The atlas is nearly complete to visual magnitude 9 but contains many fainter stars to 11. SAO star chart--1967; equinox and epoch 1950.0; FK4 system; scale 6'.95/mm. Projections: Stereographic polar, Lambert conic, or Mercator. Includes an overlay "Interpolation reseaux." Bibliography included. DETAILS: Folio. 15 x 12.5 x 2 inches (38 cm.). 1 case (2 charts, 152 plates). All plates and charts are present as is the 13pp introductory pamphlet. Slight fading to the case with scuffing at the edges, otherwise very clean. Very good condition. Heavy.… Read More

American Institute of Physics translation of the physics sections of the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. All original wraps bound in. CONDITION & DETAILS: Soviet Physics Doklady (American Institute of Physics translation of the physics sections of the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR). 4to. 11 x 8.75 inches; 275 x 219mm. pp. 509-1159, continuously paginated. Library volume with usual markings. Original wrappers bound in. Each front wrapper has stamp of the scientific library of the U. S. Patent Office, as does the contents page. Otherwise clean and fine throughout.

Lancaster, PA: American Physical Society, 1948. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME in PRISTINE CONDITION, OF FEYNMAN'S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PATH-INTEGRAL FORMALISM, A "REFORMATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS ITSELF" (American National Biography). Feynman's path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics lead physicists out of the morass of endless calculations and provided them with the simplest, most elegant, most powerful - to say nothing of the most revolutionary - method for solving the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics. Feynman's "path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics is a description of quantum theory that generalizes the action principle of classical mechanics. It replaces the classical notion of a single, unique trajectory for a quantum particle or system" with the idea that the evolution of a quantum system is determined as a sum over - or integration of -- all the possible trajectories that would take that system from the initial to the final state of its dynamical evolution… Read More

London: Taylor and Sons. 1st Edition. RARE OFFPRINT OF JOSEPH LOCKYER'S DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON THE SUN. ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS, FINE CONDITION. 6 PLATES. An "offprint" is a separately published and bound issue of the journal paper in question. Usually these are printed for the given authors and for authors to give to colleagues. Because they are rare, offprints are considered more desirable that either the original issue of the journal in paper wraps or bound. Helium was the first chemical element discovered on an extraterrestrial body -- in this case, the sun -- prior to its discovery on the Earth. Lockyer's discovery of helium also represents the first element discovered via spectroscopy. Though rare on the Earth, helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, comprising 24% of known baryonic matter by weight. Lockyer discovered helium on the sun in 1868 when he adapted his 6-inch telescope to utilize a spectroscope and while using it to carry out electromagnetic spectroscopic… Read More