Inequalities. Claude Shannon's copy with his signature.
Publisher Information: Cambridge: at the University Press, 1934.
Hardy, Godfrey H. (1877-1947); John E. Littlewood (1885-1977); George Pólya (1887-1987). Inequalities. xii, 314pp. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934. 219 x 143 mm. Original cloth stamped in silver on the spine, light wear to extremities and corners, small stain on front cover. Light finger-soiling probably from reading by Shannon, but very good. From the library of mathematician and polymath Claude E. Shannon (1916-2001), with his signature in ink on the front free endpaper.
First Edition of a classic of mathematical literature, which transformed the field of inequalities from a collection of isolated formulas into a cohesive discipline. Hardy, a pure mathematician, is credited with reforming British mathematics by bringing rigor into it; his long collaboration with Littlewood, which produced nearly 100 papers, is one of the most famous and successful in the history of mathematics. This copy from Claude Shannon’s library shows signs that Shannon read it. For example, pp. 208-209 seem to have been open for an extended period of time and Shannon marked the word symmetrical in pencil on p. 208. Shannon’s autograph is very rare. This is one of the most significant of the few books from Shannon’s library that appeared on the market in recent years.
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