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Published by The University of Illinois Press, 1971
ISBN 10: 0252725484ISBN 13: 9780252725487
Seller: Goodwill of Colorado, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. This item is in overall good condition. Covers and dust jackets are intact but may have minor wear including slight curls or bends to corners as well as cosmetic blemishes including stickers. Pages are intact but may have minor highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have slight wear overall. Digital codes may not be included and have not been tested to be redeemable and/or active. Minor shelf wear overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!.
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Published by VUIBERT, 2018
ISBN 10: 2842252225ISBN 13: 9782842252229
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Condition: Good. Good condition. Stamped on half title page. (Mathematics, telecommunication).
Published by AUZOU, 2019
ISBN 10: 2733865765ISBN 13: 9782733865767
Seller: Librairie Pic de la Mirandole, Le Mas d'Azil, France
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Couverture rigide. Condition: Neuf. LAWSON SMITH, Shannon (illustrator).
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Published by Madrid: Ediciones Forja, S.A.
ISBN 10: 8485880072ISBN 13: 9788485880072
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Used - Very Good. 1981. Paperback. Octavo. 159 pp. Text in Spanish. Mild shelf wear to wraps, upper corner bumped. Pages mildly toned. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good.
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Published by Pgreco, 2024
ISBN 10: 8868025302ISBN 13: 9788868025304
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Published by [American Mathematical Society], [Menasha, Wis., and Providence, R. I.], 1950
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Fine. 90-93 pages. 10 x 7 1/8 inches. A single sheet folded but lacking the original blue printed wrappers. Wraps. The American Mathematical Monthly first published this article in Vol 57, (Feb. 1950), pp 90-93. We offer here the original offprint issue but without the original blue printed wrappers. While we don't understand the mathematics here, one comment is fun: "If we were using this notation, department stores would find it much more difficult to camouflage the price of goods with $.98 labels." The typescript carbon in Shannon's files finishes there. But the final paper [ as offered here ] includes additional material, including a final paragraph explaining one reason for this notation: "Symmetrical notation offers attractive possibilities for general-purpose computing machines of the electronic or relay types. In these machines, it is possible to perform the calculations in any desired scale and only translate to the scale ten at input and output. The use of asymmetrical notation simplifies many of the circuits required to take care of signs in addition and subtraction, and to properly round off numbers." (p.93) "At the close of the decade, the [American Mathematical] Monthly published a beautiful, long paper by Andre Weil called the Future of Mathematics. It also published a short note in computer science by Claude Shannon called "A Symmetrical Notation for Numbers." Both papers foretold the future of mathematics." (Ewing, p. 134) PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #57 Ewing, John H., "A Century of Mathematics : Through the Eyes of the Monthly", p.134, 201-204.
Published by Hodder Gibson, 2022
ISBN 10: 1398319139ISBN 13: 9781398319134
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Published by Josiah Macy, Jr, Foundation, New York, 1952
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Later printing. Later printing. [1]-8 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Staple upper left. A xerox copy of a printed paper. Printing quality is not great but still readable. The original printout had hand-written notations ("Cybernetics - Transactions of the 8th Conference 1952, Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, 565 Park Ave., N.Y. 21, N.Y."), and hand written page numbers which are reproduced in the xerox. Wraps. First published in "Cybernetics: Circular, Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems, Transactions Eighth Conference", March 15-16, 1951, New York, N.Y. Edited by H. von Foerster, M. Mead and H. L. Teuber. We are not aware of any separate offprints of this paper from the Conference. Either there were separates and Shannon gave them all out, or he never received any and made copies for his file to distribute when asked. His Maze-solving machines were fascinating to the average person as well as computer scientists trying to figure out how these challenges might be overcome. Page 2 shows a large figure of the maze layout. Provenance: From the files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this copied paper in Shannon's files. Literature: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers" #70.
Published by Mathematical Association of America. Inc, Menasha, Wis., and Albany, N. Y., 1950
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Fair. First Edition. First Edition. 73-146, [4] pages. 10 x 7 1/8 inches. Publisher's original printed blue wrappers. Heavily soiled front cover and first leaf. The paper by Shannon is found on pages 90-93. Upper corner bumped. A decent reading copy. Wraps. The American Mathematical Monthly first published this article in Vol 57, (Feb. 1950), pp 90-93 [as here]. We offer here an example of the entire issue in the original wrappers. Other articles include one by Nowlan on the Objectives in the Teaching of College Mathematics and several others. "Symmetrical notation offers attractive possibilities for general-purpose computing machines of the electronic or relay types. In these machines, it is possible to perform the calculations in any desired scale and only translate to the scale ten at input and output. The use of asymmetrical notation simplifies many of the circuits required to take care of signs in addition and subtraction, and to properly round off numbers." (p.93) "At the close of the decade, the [American Mathematical] Monthly published a beautiful, long paper by Andre Weil called the Future of Mathematics. It also published a short note in computer science by Claude Shannon called "A Symmetrical Notation for Numbers." Both papers foretold the future of mathematics." (Ewing, p. 134) (Kuenzig Books stock, NOT shannon files) REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #57 Ewing, John H., "A Century of Mathematics : Through the Eyes of the Monthly", p.134, 201-204.
Published by University of Illinois Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0252725468ISBN 13: 9780252725463
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Covers a bit soiled else a crisp and clean copy.
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Published by Hodder Education, 2019
ISBN 10: 1510447555ISBN 13: 9781510447554
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Published by Wiley-IEEE Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0780304349ISBN 13: 9780780304345
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Published by [Taylor & Francis], [London], 1950
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Later printing. [1], [1-blank], 256-275 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. A reproduced copy of the original Philosophical Magazine printed on regular sized paper. Stapled upper left corner. Mild corner wear, otherwise a nice clean copy. Wraps. This paper was first presented at the National IRE Convention, March 9, 1949, in New York. "The Philosophical Magazine," Ser. 7, Vol 41, March 1950 (pp. 256-275) first published this paper. Offered here as a reproduced copy of the original offprint, from Shannon's files. Levy, in his "Computer Chess Compendium," states, "This chapter serves as a historical introduction to the remainder of the volume. The very first paper, Shannon's seminal work dating back to 1949 [ Paper 1.1 in Levy's book ], was first presented as a lecture on March 9th of that year to the National Convention of the Institute of Radio Engineers in New York. Shannon pioneered computer chess as we know it today, and his ideas have been employed in almost every chess program ever written." (introduction) "The first technical paper on computer chess." (Origins of Cyberspace) "In their paper on 'Chess-playing programs and the problem of complexity,' Newell, Shaw, and Simon had this to say about Shannon's paper: 'The relevant history [of chess-playing programs] begins with a paper by Claude Shannon in 1949. He did not present a particular chess program but discussed many of the basic problems involved. The framework he introduces has guided most of the subsequent analysis of the problem . The basic framework introduced by Shannon for thinking about chess problems consists of a series of questions: 1. Alternatives. Which alternative moves are to be considered? 2. Analysis. a. Which continuations are to be explored and to what depth? b. How are positions to be evaluated strategically - in terms of their patterns? c. How are the static evaluations to be integrated into a single value for an alternative? 3. Final choice procedure. What procedure is to be used to select the final preferred move? We would hazard that Shannon's paper is chiefly remembered for the specific answers he proposed to these questions: consider all alternatives; search all continuations to a fixed depth, n; evaluate with a numerical sum; minimax to get the effective value for an alternative; and then pick the best one (Newell and Simon, 1963 p 42-44)" (Origins of Cyberspace quoting Feigenbaum pp 39-70) PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon. There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #54 Hook and Norman, "Origins of Cyberspace," #882 Levy, David: "Computer Chess Compendium," Springer-Verlag: 1988. (Paper 1.1) Feigenbaum, E. A. and Feldman, J. "Computers and Thought" (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963).
Published by McGraw-Hill Companies, 1995
ISBN 10: 0071138102ISBN 13: 9780071138109
Seller: Phatpocket Limited, Waltham Abbey, HERTS, United Kingdom
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Condition: Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.
Published by [American Mathematical Society], [Menasha, Wis., and Providence, R. I.], 1950
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Separate Edition. First Separate Edition. [1-blank], 262-263, [1-blank] pages. 9 15/16 x 6 13/16 inches. Publisher's original printed yellow wrappers, stapled. A touch of wear to the corners. A nice copy. Small stain near the spine below the staple. Wraps. The Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge, Massachusetts U.S.A. August 30-September 6, 1950 first published this paper, here offered in the offprint form. It appears in Volume II, pages 262-263 in the Random Processes in Physics and Communications section. PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #68.
Published by Princeton University Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 0691151008ISBN 13: 9780691151007
Seller: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, Canada
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Published by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, New York, N.Y., 1956
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Later printing. Later printing. 2 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (275 x 213 mm) Publisher's printed grey, blue and black wrappers, stapled. Five holes punched at the spine as issued. The upper corner bumped. Wraps. The earliest known form of this paper is an internal Bell Labs reproduced typescript. The Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 27, No. 1, pp. 42-43, January 1956 first published this paper, for which an offprint is known. Here offered in the Bell Telephone Systems Monograph Series (#2547: March 1956), a later printing. Abstract: "It is proved that any network of linearly wound potentiometers and fixed resistors have a curve of resistance versus shaft angle which is concave downward." and later "As part of a computer, a rheostat having a resistance that was a concave upward function of the shaft angle was needed. After many attempts to approximate it with networks of linearly wound potentiometers and fixed resistors, it became apparent that either it was impossible or that we were singularly inept network designers. Rather than accept the latter alternative, we have proved the following theorem." In short, Shannon and Hagelbarger proved it was impossible to build a needed electrical circuit with ANY network of linearly wound potentiometers and fixed resistors. This mathematical result is an excellent example of where a practical engineering solution was needed and could have been experimented upon endlessly had the mathematicians not stepped in and proved it impossible - a hallmark of much of Shannon's work. Paul J. Nahin surmises that this paper, whose results are sometimes called the Shannon-Hagelbarger theorem, were probably related to analog computers and not a digital machine. Shannon worked for a time on the Differential Analyzer, "the most advanced electromechanical computer in the world." He also notes that H. M. Melvin advanced an alternative proof for this paper in "Journal of Applied Physics," June 1956, pp 658-659. Further research might reveal just what practical application Shannon and Hagelbarger were working on, but we haven't been able to discover it thus far. It is interesting bibliographically that all three forms of this paper (reproduced typescript, Journal of Applied Physics offprint, and Bell Monograph) in Shannon's files were slightly different. The (presumed earliest) reproduced typescript has some apparent typos and incorrectly uses the phrase "concave downward function of the shaft angle" as the desired solution in the first sentence. The Bell Monograph paper corrects that to "concave upward function," as does the Journal of Applied Physics offprint. Lastly, the Journal of Applied Physics offprint includes a second sentence in the first paragraph of Corollary II that starts "This is also true if." which is present in the reproduced typescript but not in the Bell System Monograph. The completist will want one of each. PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #98 Nahin, Paul J., "The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age," p 5. COLLECTORS NOTE: The Bell Telephone System Monograph series offered a way to obtain individual articles by Bell scientists regardless of where their work was first published. Many Monographs significantly postdate the original article publication. Because of this, they rarely constitute the coveted (and traditional) article offprint. If the journal of record issued no offprint, the Monograph might be the first separate publication - the closest the collector can come to a traditional offprint. We have done our best to place each Monograph properly in the article's publishing history and welcome any corrections or additional information, especially regarding issues unknown to us.
Published by [Massachusetts Institute of Technology], [Cambridge, Massachusetts], 1949
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Very Good. [1-blank], 148-151, [1-blank] pages. 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Publisher's printed self-wrappers. Three separate leaves stapled twice near the spine. While oddly constructed, the reprint statement on the first leaf indicates this is an offprint and not an extract - all other examined copies from Shannon's files are identical. Wraps. The Journal of Mathematics and Physics, Vol XXVIII, No 2, July 1949, first published this paper. Here offered in offprint form with no separate wrappers (presumably as issued). "Theorem: The lines of any network can be colored so that no two lines with a common junction have the same color using at most [ (3/2)*m ] colors, where m is the maximum number of lines touching one junction. This number of colors is necessary for some networks." (p 148) See Shannon multigraphs in Wikipedia for one example of usage. "In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, Shannon multigraphs, named after Claude Shannon by Vizing (1965), are a special type of triangle graphs, which are used in the field of edge coloring in particular." (Wikipedia) PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple copies of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #44.
Published by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, [New York, NY], 1955
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Very Good. [1], 2 leaves. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Reproduced typescript. Four holes punched near the spine, stapled upper left, large crease upper right and minor edge staining. Wraps. Abstract: "The following theorem is proved: In a discrete noisy channel without memory the rate of transmission R is a concave downward function of the probabilities Pi of the input symbols. Hence any local maximium of R will be the absolute maximum or channel capacity C." An internal Bell Labs Memorandum whose filing subject is information theory. Fifteen Bell Labs scientists were on the distribution list. PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were nine examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #95.
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1961
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 611-644 pages. 10 1/16 x 6 3/4 inches. Stapled self-wrappers. Creased, some minor soiling. Wraps. The Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Symposium Probability and Statistics first published this paper. The construction of this item leaves us a little unsure of its intended use. It could be an offprint, but it lacks the usual separate wrapper or reprint statement. It could also be stapled, trimmed extracts from the Symposium's preprints or transactions. The layout and details appear the same as the digitalized Proceedings. Regardless, it is the form of the paper that Shannon was distributing when requested. Lacking any additional information, and realizing it was in the author's personal files, we lean toward it being an offprint for the author's use. ".The problem is to communicate in both directions through the channel as effectively as possible. Particularly, we wish to determine what pairs of signaling rates R1 and R2 for the two directions can be approached with arbitrarily small error probabilities." (introduction) PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #119 Hook and Norman, "Origins of Cyberspace," #899 Reprinted in D. Slepian, editor, "Key Papers in the Development of Information Theory," IEEE Press, NY, 1974, pp 339-372 Proceedings Fourth Berkeley Symposium Probability and Statistics, June 20 - July 30, 1960, edited by J. Neyman, Univ. Calif. Press, Berkeley, CA, Vol. 1, 1961, pp. 611-644.
Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 231p Size: 15cm Number of books: 1.
Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 140 Size: Paperback.
Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 231p Size: 15cm Number of books: 1.
Published by Princeton University Press, 1956
ISBN 10: 0691079161ISBN 13: 9780691079165
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
Published by [American Mathematical Society], [Menasha, Wis., and Providence, R. I.], 1950
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. 90-93 pages. 10 x 7 1/8 inches. Publisher's original printed blue wrappers. Stapled. Wraps. The American Mathematical Monthly first published this article in Vol 57, (Feb. 1950), pp 90-93. We offer here the original offprint issue with the original blue printed wrappers. While we don't understand the mathematics here, one comment is fun: "If we were using this notation, department stores would find it much more difficult to camouflage the price of goods with $.98 labels." The typescript carbon in Shannon's files finishes there. But the final paper [as offered here] includes additional material, including a final paragraph explaining one reason for this notation: "Symmetrical notation offers attractive possibilities for general-purpose computing machines of the electronic or relay types. In these machines, it is possible to perform the calculations in any desired scale and only translate to the scale ten at input and output. The use of asymmetrical notation simplifies many of the circuits required to take care of signs in addition and subtraction, and to properly round off numbers." (p.93) "At the close of the decade, the [American Mathematical] Monthly published a beautiful, long paper by Andre Weil called the Future of Mathematics. It also published a short note in computer science by Claude Shannon called "A Symmetrical Notation for Numbers." Both papers foretold the future of mathematics." (Ewing, p. 134) PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #57 Ewing, John H., "A Century of Mathematics : Through the Eyes of the Monthly", p.134, 201-204.
Published by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, N. J., 1954
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Very Good. [1-cover sheet], [1]-5 leaves + four figures on one leaf of plates. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. A reproduced typescript with four holes punched at the spine as issued. Stapled upper left, with light overall wear and minor creasing. The Bell Laboratories Filing Subject for this paper is "Network Theory." Wraps. "It is shown that the resistance of a two-terminal resistance network is a concave function of the component resistances." (abstract) "Recently, in connection with the design of a certain circuit, a variable resistance was desired. The variation of this resistance as the shaft was turned should approximate a certain function which was convex downward. It was also desired to obtain this behavior from a circuit consisting of one or more linearly wound potentiometers on the shaft and fixed resistors. All the circuits which were studied proved to have resistance curves which were concave downward. Our lack of success led to a theorem on networks which shows that this is necessarily always the case." (first paragraph). This paper appears to discuss material eventually published as "Concavity of Resistance Functions" by Shannon and Hagelbarger. This technical memorandum was not included in Sloane and Wyner's bibliography. PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple copies of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: NOT IN Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers" Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," item 98 ("Concavity of Resistance Functions").
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1956
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. [1 (title page)], [1 (blank verso)], 157-165, [3 (blank)] pages. 10 x 7 inches. Stapled printed self-wrappers, with leaves trimmed at the spine. Light staining at foreedge The construction of this item is unusual. It consists of separate leaves of the printed paper in the original journal fonts, with a new title page "AUTOMATA STUDIES" (blank verso) and an added trailing blank leaf, all stapled at the spine. All examined copies from Shannon's files are the same, leading us to conclude it was likely an author offprint even though a reprint statement is not present. Wraps. Originally printed as an internal Bell Laboratories Memorandum: Number 54-114-38, May 15, 1954. "Automata Studies," Annals of Mathematics Studies number 34, 1956 (edited by Claude Shannon and John McCarthy), first published this Shannon paper as "A Universal Turing Machine With Two Internal States" on pages 157-165. "Our main result is to show that a universal Turing machine can be constructed using one tape and having only two internal states. It will also be shown that it is impossible to do this with one internal state. Finally, a construction is given for a universal Turing machine with only two tape symbols." (p 158 of introduction) "A Turing machine which, by appropriate programming using a finite length of input tape, can act as any Turing machine whatsoever. In his seminal paper, Turing himself gave the first construction for a universal Turing machine (Turing 1937, 1938). Shannon (1956) showed that two colors were sufficient, so long as enough states were used. [ as here ]" Wolfram Mathworld PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #93.
Published by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, New York, N.Y., 1959
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: Fine. Later printing. Later printing. 46, [2-blank] pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (275 x 213 mm) Original wrappers, printed in grey, light blue, and black. Stapled with five holes punched at the spine as issued. A bright, clean copy. Wraps. The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol 38, pp 611-656, May 1959 first published this paper. A separate Bell System Technical Journal offprint of this paper does exist, so this Bell Telephone System Technical Publications Monograph (#3259:July 1959) is a later printing. "A study is made of coding and decoding systems for a continuous channel with an additive gaussian noise and subject to an average power limitation at the transmitter. Upper and lower bounds are found for the error probability in decoding with optimal codes and decoding systems. These bounds are close together for signaling rates near channel capacity and also for signaling rates near zero, but diverge between. Curves exhibiting these bounds are given." (abstract) PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). There were multiple examples of this item in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #117 Hook and Norman, "Origins of Cyberspace," #898 (incorrectly referencing this item as an offprint) COLLECTORS NOTE: The Bell Telephone System Monograph series offered a way to obtain individual articles by Bell scientists regardless of where their work was first published. Many Monographs significantly postdate the original article publication. Because of this, they rarely constitute the coveted (and traditional) article offprint. If the journal of record issued no offprint, the Monograph might be the first separate publication - the closest the collector can come to a traditional offprint. We have done our best to place each Monograph properly in the article's publishing history and welcome any corrections or additional information, especially regarding issues unknown to us.
Published by Independently Published, 2020
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus, fine condition. Mathematical Theory of Communication Special Collection by Claude E.; Weaver, Warren Shannon. Published by Independently Published in 2020. Paperback. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in excellent condition.