Richard V. Kadison:Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras. Volume III (Graduate Studies in Mathematics)
- signiertes Exemplar 1998, ISBN: 9780821809907
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Sandia Base, Albuquerque, NM: Defense Atomic Support Agency, Field Command, Atomic Weapons Training Group, 1965. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Three-hole punched with pins… Mehr…
Sandia Base, Albuquerque, NM: Defense Atomic Support Agency, Field Command, Atomic Weapons Training Group, 1965. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Three-hole punched with pins. Good. Various paginations (approximately 350 pages). Illustrations. Fold-outs. Formulae. Cover worn, torn, soiled, and chipped. Name in marker on front cover and fore-edge. This workbook was designed as a study aid during resident instruction and was not to be used as a substituted for technical publications. The contents included an Introduction, Arithmetic Operations, Algebra, Trigonometry, Logarithms, Fundamental Concepts of Electricity, Electrical and Shop Safety, Circuit Symbols and Diagrams, Theory of Direct Current, Series and Parallel Direct Current Circuits, Theory of Alternating Current Circuits; Series and Parallel Alternative Current Circuits; Voltage Dividers and Bridge Circuits; Meter Movements and Meters, Vacuum Tubes and Amplifiers, Magnetic Amplifiers, Synchros, with Appendixes on Table of Logarithms and Table of Trigonometric Functions. While this is fundamentally a technical training manual/workbook, the instruction and trainee orientation was clearly focused on naval nuclear assets. Among the equipment addressed are T-75, T-160 Test Set and Firing Set, and T-3021. The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP) was a United States military agency responsible for those aspects of nuclear weapons remaining under military control after the Manhattan Project was succeeded by the Atomic Energy Commission on 1 January 1947. These responsibilities included the maintenance, storage, surveillance, security and handling of nuclear weapons, as well as supporting nuclear testing. The AFSWP was a joint organization, staffed by the United States Army, United States Navy and United States Air Force; its chief was supported by deputies from the other two services. Major General Leslie R. Groves, the former head of the Manhattan Project, was its first chief. The early nuclear weapons were large, complex, and cumbersome. They were stored as components rather than complete devices and required expert knowledge to assemble. The short life of their lead-acid batteries and modulated neutron initiators, and the heat generated by the fissile cores, precluded storing them assembled. The large quantity of conventional explosive in each weapon demanded special care be taken in handling. Groves hand-picked a team of regular Army officers, who were trained in the assembly and handling of the weapons. They in turn trained the enlisted soldiers, and the Army teams then trained teams from the Navy and Air Force. As nuclear weapons development proceeded, the weapons became mass-produced, smaller, lighter, and easier to store, handle, and maintain. They also required less effort to assemble. The AFSWP gradually shifted its emphasis away from training assembly teams, and became more involved in stockpile management and providing administrative, technical, and logistical support. It supported nuclear weapons testing, although after Operation Sandstone in 1948, this was increasingly in a planning and training capacity rather than a field role. The Defense Reorganization Act of 1958 was signed by Eisenhower in August 1958. It increased the authority of the Secretary of Defense, who was authorized to establish such defense agencies as he thought necessary "to provide for more effective, efficient and economical administration and operation". The first field agency established under the act was the Defense Atomic Support Agency (DASA). The new agency reported to the Secretary of Defense through the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was given responsibility for the supervision of all Department of Defense nuclear sites. Otherwise, known as Top Secret military expeditionary instillation such as Sandia Base, Manzano Base, Bossier Base Clarksville Base, Killeen Base and Lake Mead Base to name a few its role and organization remained much the same, and its commander, Rear Admiral Edward N. Parker, remained as its first director. In 1959, the AFSWP became the Defense Atomic Support Agency (DASA), a field agency of the Department of Defense., Defense Atomic Support Agency, Field Command, Atomic Weapons Training Group, 1965, 2.5, New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers [AIEE], 1938. Later printing. Wraps. Near Fine. Later printing. [1]-11, 12 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Copied loose leaves stapled upper left. A later generation copy the MIT Preprint of the AIEE paper. Copy quality is not ideal, but it is readable and a copy from Shannon's personal files. Wraps. We offer a later generation copy of the previously unrecorded MIT preprint of Claude Shannon's AIEE paper "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits," a pivotal paper in the history of computing. (see #1.5 in COLLECTOR'S NOTES). This paper (often referred to as Shannon's famous Master's Thesis) is a fundamentally important work in the history of computing. It demonstrates how to combine the mathematical rigor of Boolean logic with the engineering practice of building circuits, a discipline previously more of an experimental art form than a true engineering discipline. This work provided the foundation for computer circuit design as we know it today, without which the phenomenal growth of computing (see Moore's Law) could not have happened. "In 1936 [after obtaining the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Michigan, Shannon] accepted the position of research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The position allowed him to continue studying toward advanced degrees while working part-time for the department. The work in question was ideally suited to his interests and talents. It involved the operation of the Bush differential analyzer, the most advanced calculating machine of that era ... Also of interest was a complex relay circuit associated with the differential analyzer that controlled its operation and involved over one hundred relays. In studying and servicing this circuit, Shannon became interested in the theory and design of relay and switching circuits. He had studied symbolic logic and Boolean algebra at Michigan in mathematics courses and realized that this was the appropriate mathematics for studying such two-valued systems. He developed these ideas during the summer of 1937, which he spent at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City, and, back at MIT, in his master's thesis, where he showed how Boolean algebra could be used in the analysis and synthesis of switching and computer circuits." (Sloane and Wyner pp xi-xii) The American Institute of Electrical Engineers recognized the significance of Shannon's thesis and invited the young Claude Shannon, an "Enrolled Student AIEE," to present an abstract of his thesis at the June 1938 Summer AIEE conference while still enrolled at MIT. "The thesis, his first published paper, aroused considerable interest when it appeared in 1938 in the AIEE Transactions. In 1940, it was awarded the [1939] Alfred Noble Prize of the combined engineering societies of the United States, an award given each year to a person, not over thirty, for a paper published in one of the journals of the participating societies." (Sloane and Wyner, pp. xi-xii). Herman H. Goldstine notes: "This surely must be one of the most important master's theses ever written...The paper was a landmark in that it helped change digital circuit design from an art to a science." (Goldstine, pp 119-120) "Shannon's paper, written in 1937 at Bell Labs, proved in theory what George Stibitz was demonstrating empirically at Bell Labs at just about the same time with his famous 'Model K' relay calculator...Shannon proved that the two-valued algebra developed by George Boole ... could be implemented electrically by telephone relays and used as a basis for designing computer circuits." (Origins of Cyberspace) PROVENANCE: The personal files of Claude E. Shannon (unmarked). One of ten examples in Shannon's files. REFERENCES: (citing the regular AIEE Transactions publication) Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #1 Hook and Norman, "Origins of Cyberspace," #363. Swartzlander, Earl E. Jr., "Computer Design Development, Principal Papers," Hayden: 1976. Goldstine, Herman H., "The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann," Princeton University Press: 1980, pp 119-120. COLLECTOR NOTES: Below is our current understanding of the printing history of "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits." Except for Item 1.1a we have personally examined one or more examples (digitally or physically) of each entry. Please note the change of item 1.3 to item 1.1a in the listing based on new information from the current owner of that item. Pre-publication - Master's thesis (note change since our first Shannon catalog) 1.0 The original markup copy, dated 1937 (private collection) 1.1a Unknown duplication process with penciled annotations in an unknown hand (private collection, previously referred to as 1.3) 1.1b A preliminary blue line print, dated 1938, contemporary with and probably made from 1.1a (private collection - your example, previously 1.1) 1.2 The official MIT Libraries archive copy, dated 1940 (MIT Libraries) 1.3 no copy - Previously "The second MIT Libraries archive copy" (now number 1.1a above) While working on his MIT Master's Thesis, Shannon was invited to and presented his work at the Summer conference of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, June 2-24, 1938. The following publication history is related to that presentation. Publication - Shannon's AIEE thesis presentation 1.4 AIEE presentation preprint, dated June 1938 Marked "AIEE Technical Paper 38-80, June 1938: Advance Copy Not Released for Publication" and further "A paper recommended by the AIEE committees on communication and basic sciences, and scheduled for presentation at the AIEE summer convention, Washington, D. C., June 20-24, 1938. Manuscript submitted March 1, 1938; made available for preprinting May 27, 1938." Shannon thanks his thesis advisor Dr. F. L. Hitchcock, Dr. Vannevar Bush, and Dr. S. H. Caldwell (all from MIT) for "helpful encouragement and criticism." 1.5 MIT preprint of 1.6 below, dated September 16, 1938 Hand-applied ink-stamp upper left "A Reprint from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering 141 Mass. Institute of Technology" partially covering the title and author of the paper. 1.6 Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers' printings In the bound volume, Vol 57, 1938 (the most common format) In the year-end Supplement, December 1938 1.7 The AIEE reprint, with corrections, undated, but after 1938 1.8 The "Geniac reprint," circa 1955-58, reprinted from item 1.5 but with poor reproduction quality and lacking imprint information on the final page. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers' standard practice was to publish at least some of the papers from the Summer conference in the end-of-year annual Transactions volume. The first regular publication of Shannon's paper appears in this publisher's cloth-bound volume of the Transactions, Vol. 57 (1938). pp. 713-23 (1.6a above). For AIEE members who did not subscribe to the transactions, the AIEE also issued (in wrappers) a year-end Supplement (December 1938), including Shannon's paper (1.6b above). No precedence is currently known., American Institute of Electrical Engineers [AIEE], 1938, 4, American Mathematical Society, 1998-01-13. Hardcover. Good., American Mathematical Society, 1998-01-13, 2.5<
