London, Taylor and Francis, 1862. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1862. Vol. 152 - Part I. Pp. 225-252. A very faint dampstain to upper corners on the last 2 leaves, otherwise clean and fine, wide-margined..
First appearance of one of Boole's last papers.
George Boole is mostly known for his "An Investigation on the Laws of Thought" 1854 and his developments of a form of symbolic logik, called Boolean Algebra. But he also did importent work on the Calculus, Differential Equations and the heory of probabilities.
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