SHANNON, EIGHT VOLUMES

i. "A theorem on colouring the lines of a network" [in:] Journal of Mathematics and Physics, vol. 28, pp.148-151. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1941, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, library buckram, spine gilt, (bought from Yelm Books, 2002), [T&W S99]ii. "The synthesis of two-terminal switching circuits" [in:] Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, January 1949. New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original blue wrappers printed, previous ownership signature, (bought from Judea Pearl, 1998), [T&W S98], abrasion to lower endpaper iii. "Communication in the presence of noise" [in:] Proceedings of the IRE, vol. 37, no. 1, January 1949, pp.10-21. New York: Institute of Radio Engineers, 1949, FIRST EDITION, 4to, original printed wrappers, (bought from Yelm Books, 2002), [T&W S92]iv. "Communication theory of secrecy systems" [in:] Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 28, no.4, October, 1949, pp.656-715. New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original blue paper wrappers printed, previous ownership signature on title-page, (bought from Judea Pearl, 1998), [T&W S93], abrasion to lower endpaper v. [with Warren Weaver (1894–1978)]. The mathematical theory of communication. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original cloth boards, (bought from Scientia, 1988), [T&W S102; Origins of Cyberspace 881], rubbed vi. "Prediction and Entropy of Printed English" [in:] The Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, January 1951, pp.50-64. New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1951, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original blue paper wrappers printed, (bought from Judea Pearl, 1998), [T&W S96], minor soiling to wrappers, some loss to spine vii. Goldman, Stanford. Information theory. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original green cloth, previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper, [T&W G52]viii. "A universal Turing machine with two internal states" [in:] Automata studies, pp. 157-165. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original orange wrappers printed, [T&W S100; Origins of Cyberspace 893]

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