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Science and Complexity. - [CATEGORIZING COMPLEXITY]
[No printer], 1948. 8vo. In the original printed grey wrappers. Offprint from ""American Scientist, Autunmn Issue, 1948, Vol. 36, No. 4"". A very fine and clean copy, near mint. 536-544 pp.
Rare offprint issue of Weaver's famous essay on complexity ""in which he rather boldly claimed that while ""the 19th century was the century of disorganized complexity - the 20th century must be that of organized complexity"". Weaver is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation, and as an important figure in creating support for science in the United States. Weaver stated that that the complexity of a particular system is the degree of difficulty in predicting the properties of the system, if the properties of the system's parts are given and he divides complexity between disorganized complexity, and organized complexity. This categorization has deeply influenced contemporary thinking about complexity.""For historical setting, this article was published shortly after World War II and is influenced by operations research and the first computers developed for for the war effort. During the war, Weaver headed the Applied Mathematics Panel (AAAS, 2004), a position that led to familiarity with many of the top scientists of the era. It was a time of great advances in science and optimism for more growth in the future. This article was also written at the time Weaver was formulating ideas that would later be published with Claude Shannon in The mathematical theory of communication, which laid the foundation for information theory. Weaver's thoughts during this time on how computers might be employed in machine translation were later collected in his famous memorandum on the topic that ""formulated goals and methods before most people had any idea of what computers might be capable of"". (Griffin, Information theory of Claude Shannon & Warren Weaver).
Science and People. - [WEAVER'S PRESIDENTIAL SPEACH]
(Lancaster, Business Press), 1955. Royal8vo (285 x 210 mm). In the original yellow printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Science, December 30, 1955, Vol. 122, No. 3185, pages 1255-1259). A very fine and clean copy. Seperately paginated. 5, pp.
Rare offprint issue of Weaver's speech when he was elected president for The American Association for the Advancement of Science. Weaver is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation, and as an important figure in creating support for science in the United States. Along with communication, Weaver's greatest personal research interest lay with the mathematical theory of probability. It was his belief that all scientists are deeply concerned with probability. For a vast range of cases in which it is entirely impossible for science to answer the question 'Is this statement true?' Probability theory does furnish the basis for judgment as to how likely it is that the statement is true.
Probability, Rarity, Interest, and Surprise.
(No Printer), 1948. Royal8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""The Scientific Monthly, Vol. LXVII, No. 6, December, 1948"". A very a fine and clean copy. Pp. 390-392.
Rare offprint issue of Weaver's early paper on the importance of the awareness of probability in science. Weaver is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation, and as an important figure in creating support for science in the United States. Along with communication, Weaver's greatest personal research interest lay with the mathematical theory of probability. It was his belief that all scientists are deeply concerned with probability. For a vast range of cases in which it is entirely impossible for science to answer the question 'Is this statement true?' Probability theory does furnish the basis for judgment as to how likely it is that the statement is true.
Statistical Freedom of the Will.
(New York), American physical Society, 1948. Royal8vo. In the original printed orange wrappers. Offprint from ""Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 31-34, January, 1948"". A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 31-34.
Rare offprint issue of Weaver's essay on how to perceive reality and what is statistically determined and what is free will. Weaver is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation, and as an important figure in creating support for science in the United States. Along with communication, Weaver's greatest personal research interest lay with the mathematical theory of probability. It was his belief that all scientists are deeply concerned with probability. For a vast range of cases in which it is entirely impossible for science to answer the question 'Is this statement true?' Probability theory does furnish the basis for judgment as to how likely it is that the statement is true.
Science and the Citizen.
(Lancaster, Business Press), 1957. Royal8vo (285 x 210 mm). In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Science, December 13, 1957, Vol. 126, No. 3285, pages 1225-1229). A very fine and clean copy. Seperately paginated. 5, (2) pp. (last two being blank).
Rare offprint issue of Weaver's paper on the importance of teaching science. Weaver is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation, and as an important figure in creating support for science in the United States. He became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1954 and Chairman of the Board in 1955. He was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1957. In 1965 he was awarded the first Arches of Science Medal for outstanding contributions to the public understanding of the meaning of science to contemporary men and women, and UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for distinguished contributions to the popular understanding of science.
La théorie mathématique de la communication
Cassini. 2018. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 152 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 510-Mathématiques
Trad. de l'anglais par J. Cosnier, G. Dahan, S. Economidès, C. Bellaïche et O. Rioul. Préface d'Olivier Rioul. Classification Dewey : 510-Mathématiques
