Quantum Theory, Signed (15 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Signed. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover copy shows minor wear at spine head. No dust jacket. ; Inscribed by author. Boards are square, flat and clean. Tight binding. Text body is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 214 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition, Limited. 1st edition, limited to 700 copies, 2011. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. INSCRIBED inside front cover, SIGNED on title page. 8vo., 578 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with illustrated glossy black dust jacket, $50.00. Minor signs of shelf wear, small crease to inner front flap. Very small area of cloth rubbed on front cover. Text appears unmarked, dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Lanny Provo (Jacket Photo) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. vi, 281. [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Further Reading. Index. Inscribed by the author on fep. The inscription reads For Phil, Read this quick before it becomes old news. Tom Siegfried. Compliments bookplate on fep. Ink notations inside cover and on fep (front and back). Some ink underling and notations to text noted. Tom Siegfried was editor in chief of Science News from 2007 to 2012, and he was the managing editor from 2014 to 2017. In addition to Science News, his work has appeared in Science, Nature, Astronomy, New Scientist and Smithsonian. Previously he was the science editor of The Dallas Morning News. He is the author of three books: The Bit and the Pendulum; Strange Matters; and A Beautiful Math. Tom earned an undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University and has a master of arts with a major in journalism and a minor in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. His awards include the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism,and the AAAS Westinghouse Award. An award-winning journalist surveys the horizon of a new revolution in science. Everything in the universe, from the molecules in our bodies to the heart of a black hole, is made up of bits of information. This is the radical idea at the center of the new physics of information, and it is leading to exciting breakthroughs in a vast range of science, including the invention of a new kind of quantum computer, millions of times faster than any computer today. Acclaimed science writer Tom Siegfried offers a lively introduction to the leading scientists and ideas responsible for this exciting new scientific paradigm. Derived from a Kirkus review: The computer has, in the information age, developed into a powerful metaphor for understanding the universe. In a straightforward, often whimsical exposition of new revelations in computer science, theoretical physics, molecular biology, and the developing science of consciousness, Many computer functions, Siegfried asserts, including the binary coding with which computers calculate and the manner in which computers produce outputs from inputs according to pre-programmed mathematical rules, find analogues in nature. Siegfried hurtles from cell analysis to Boolean logic to quantum mechanics to the theory of black holes to make his point. He contends, the computer has become such a powerful symbol for the universe that scientists are in danger of mistaking the metaphor for nature itself: The computer has become as all-encompassing a model as Newton's clock, Siegfried concludes, but it may be no better able to explain everything in nature.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. ~ Signed by Author on title page ~ Paper over boards in illustrated dust jacket ~ 399p ~ 24x16x4cm. ~ A Fine copy ~ LANGUAGE: English // We accept PayPal & EU bank transfer in EUROS //. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. SIGNED & Inscribed by Yourgrau. This book is in good condition. Binding is tight and square. Pages are bright and clean. No notes or highlighting. Text block is clean. Blue boards are clean and bright. Publisher colophon stamped in gold gilt on front board. Title in gilt up spine. Minor wear to corners. Bump to lower edge of rear board. Dust jacket is in good condition. Wear to corners and edges. 1/2" tear to lower edge of spine; second 1/2" tear at lower corner of rear. Chip missing from top edge of spine and top edge of back cover. Price clipped. DJ in protective archival cover. Includes laid-in staple-bound booklet with Youngrau's "The Cognitive Value of Nietzsche's Philosophy," reprinted from "Theoria", No. 10, July, 1958. Book inscribed by Youngrau on ffep: "For James with kind memories from his old buddy / W. Youngrau / Smith College June 28, 1961.". Inscribed by Author(s).

691 p. Code 2502.

Condition: Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! Nashville, TN: Weldon Ellis, 1988. 1st edition. Paperback edition. Sm 8vo. vii,108pp. Inscribed by author on inside front cover. Good book. Good dust jacket. (cosmology, miscellanea) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp ix, 155. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Initialled presentation from Wolfgang Yourgrau on the front endpaper, "To Kevin Holland, in appreciation of all his devotion and able assistance, W. Y. 1955." Neat name on front endpaper of Kevin Holland with slight rubbing and wear at spine, otherwise sound, near very good. Signedes.

3 offprints. Original printed and/or self-printed wrappers. Very good. INVENTORY: GUSTAFSON, Torsten. On the Elimination of Divergencies in Quantum Field Theory. From: Kungl. Fysiografiska Sallskapets I Lund Forhandlingar, Bd. 15, Nr. 28, 12 pp., 1945. Signed by Pais. GUSTAFSON, Torsten. On the Elimination of Certain Divergencies in Quantum Electrodynamics. From: Arkiv for matematik, Astronomi och Fysik, Utgivet av, K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, Band 34 A., no. 2, 9 pp., 1946. Signed by Pais. GUSTAFSON, Torsten. On the Potential Collective Flow of a Rotating Nucleus with Non-Ellipsoidal Boundary. From: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Matematisk-fysiske Meddelelser, bind 30, nr. 5, 15 pp., 1955. Gustafson was a Swedish physicist, both studied and taught at Lund University. His research focus was first mechanics, and especially flow mechanics with aerodynamics and oceanography applications. While a PhD student, he worked as an assistant in the Swedish Hydrographic-Biological Commission in 1930-1934. Later he was mainly involved in nuclear physics. Torsten Gustafson was acquainted with Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander and served as Erlander's Informal Scientific Adviser both during his time as ecclesiastical minister and prime minister. In this capacity, Gustafson had an important role in the process, which led Sweden to focus early on nuclear research, including in the form of the Atomic Committee appointed in 1945, where Gustafson was a member. He was a member of the Council of CERN in Geneva in 1953-1964.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First ediition. Hardcover. 150 pages. One of the earlier books on the Many-Body Problem. A near fine copy in cloth boards with some soft creasing to the first few pages and with publisher info card affixed to the copyright page as issued and some other minor wear and in a very good plus dust jacket with some light wear. Signed and humorously inscribed by Schultz on the front free endpaper: "To Bob & Barb, Here's some light reading for during TV commercials and helpgul hints for big parties with many bodies. All my love Ted." A fairly uncommon book and especially signed. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. GOOD; HARD BOUND; NO DUST JACKET; SIGNED ON THE FLYSHEET BY RUDOLF PEIERLS AND DATED AUGUST 28, 1969 - SEATTLE; the pages are generally clean and in good condition; the covers have some wear and scratches and soiling yet remain in good condition; Peierls signature is difficult to find on a document; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

4to. Reprint Microscopic Quantum Interference in the Theory of Superconductivity" mit eigenh. Unterschrift.

First UK edition of Volume 1, first US editions of Volumes 2 and 3, each a presentation copy and boldly inscribed on the front free endpaper to Popper's friend, the philosophical broadcaster Bryan Magee "to Bryan, with love, from Karl". Presentation sets to the same recipient are scarce in commerce, as such sets are often broken up. By March 1983, the date of Popper's inscription in Volume 1, the two men were friends and intellectual allies. Magee (1930-2019) wrote a book-length study of Popper's thought in 1985, where he described the Postscript as "written when he was at the height of his powers, and. [containing] some of his most valuable work" (p. 115). Ever an attentive reader, Magee has made a series of ink annotations to Volume 3, along with several notes on the rear pastedown summarizing Popper's positive arguments. He also recorded his first reading on the front free endpaper, firstly in London on 23 October 1983 and latterly in Reigate on 24-25 October. On the title page of Volume 3, Popper has noted that it was also published in England by Hutchinson. Volume 1 includes two loosely inserted postcards from around 2000 to Magee from "David" - almost certainly David Miller (1942-2024), Popper's former research assistant and later a developer of his philosophy. There, he bemoans the anti-Popperian shift at the London School of Economics since his death ("Colin Howson has published a book entitled Hume's Problem [title underlined] that makes the most determined attempts to rubbish what Karl said about induction - and to hand the palm to Fisher ('a deeper thinker') for recognizing that a failure to falsify a theory does not provide a reason in its favour. This is the L.S.E of today"). Miller was another long-time friend of Magee, proof-reading his 1987 study of the Great Philosophers. Bryan Magee, Philosophy and the Real World: An Introduction to Karl Popper, 1985. 3 works, octavo. Diagrams in the text. Original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With dust jackets (vols. 2 and 3 in US edition jacket). Small price sticker to front jacket flap of vol. 1. Light bumping, minor rubbing, creasing, and browning to jackets, flaps without price as issued, remnants of price sticker to rear panel of vol. 1: a very good set.

First edition, first impression, presentation copy from the author to his friend, the philosopher Anthony Meredith Quinton (1925-2010), inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Tony from Karl November 1982". Quinton taught philosophy at Oxford from 1955 onwards, joining A. J. Ayer's seminal discussion group there. He was firmly in the Anglo-American analytic school, a staunch empiricist, and no fan of the continental philosophers. His three key works were published in the 1970s: The Nature of Things (1973), a bold defence of materialism ranging from metaphysics to the theory of value; Utilitarian Ethics (1973), defending the utilitarian notion that morality consists in promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number; and The Politics of Imperfection (1978), on the secular and religious traditions of English conservative thought. Elected president of Trinity College, Oxford in 1978, Quinton became more involved in public affairs, and acted as an advisor to Margaret Thatcher's government, for which he was rewarded with a life peerage in 1982. Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics was the third in Popper's three-part postscript to his first published book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1936), a postscript decades in its conclusion, and which grew into a fully-fledged work which actually exceeded in length The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Top edge lightly soiled else a fine copy, in near-fine jacket, lightly toned with minor peripheral creasing.