Books offered by JF Ptak Science Books LLC

Rare Work by W. Edwards Deming, 1938

W. Edwards Deming b. 14 October 1900 - d. 20 December 1993

"Summary. Long recognized as a leading proponent of statistical sampling and approaches to quality improvement, Deming led major efforts to bring statistical approaches and methods to bear on problems in government, science and industry."

"On the Statistical Theory of Errors", Deming with Raymond T. Birge, being an offprint from Reviews of Modern Physics, volume 6, pp 119-181, July 1932, with additions and corrections dated 1937 and 1938. 

Printed wrappers, fine condition, with the original owner's name in ink at the top right corner of the front wrappers.  Rare.  $350

"In 1934, Deming published, jointly with the UC Berkeley Physicist Raymond T. Birge, an influential paper ``On the Statistical Theory of Errors.'' This review paper brought the methods of Fisher, Neyman and Pearson (q.v.), and Jeffreys (q.v.) to a broad audience of American physical Scientists. It was reprinted with additional notes in 1937 by the Graduate School of the USDA, and it served effectively as a textbook for over a decade. In correspondence with Deming, Fisher was generally quite complimentary, although in a 1940 letter to Maurice Frechet (q.v.) about Deming and Birge, Fisher complained that he found ``these writers very often obscure.'' This material also made its way into Deming's mimeographed lecture notes on least squares which first appeared in 1938, which he later turned into the 1943 book on the adjustment of statistical data."

Quote sources: Stephen E. Fienberg and Stephen M. Stigler, W. Edwards Deming, from StatProb, the Encyclopedia sponsored by the Statistics and Probability Societies.  http://statprob.com/encyclopedia/WEdwardsDEMING.html

Interesting, Rare Work on Geometrical Visualization

Aldrich, B.M. (M.S., Ass't professor of mechanical engineering, Oklahoma A & M College.

(1) Student Aid in Descriptive Geometry.  8x12 inches. 55 leaves.  Blueprint. Self-produced. This is the Copyright Deposit copy, coming via the Library of Congress Pamphlet Collections.  There are no copies located in the WorldCat catalog, finding no copies in any library worldwide in the WorldCat sysatem.

(2) Descriptive Geomnetry Aid.  (1943-46)  Revised edition of teh work above.  8x5 inches, 126pp.  This too is the Copyright Deposit copy, from the Pamphlet Collection of the Library of Congress.  WorldCat locates only five copies.  Fine condition.

To my eye Aldrich presents an interesting way of placing geometrical figures in 3-space.  I like the work. 

The pair:  $150.00

Four Rare RAND Publications by Paul Samuelson

Samuelson,  Paul Anthony (1915-2009)

Four rare papers printed by the RAND Corporation, all in very limited distribution.

1) Market Mechanisms and Maximization. 28 March 1949. 78pp. Copy no. 117 (printed on the cover and then hand-numbered on the title page).

2) Market Mechanisms and Maximization, III:  Dynamics and Linear Programming.  Published 29 June 1949, RM-17.  Copy no. 73 (printed on the cover and then hand-numbered on the title page).   23pp.

3) The Le Chatelier Principle in Linear Programming. 4 August 1949. RM-210. Copy no. 70. (printed on the cover and then hand-numbered on the title page). 18pp.

4) Abstract of theorem Concerning Substitutability in Leontief Systems. 9 February 1949. Copy no. 32 (printed on the cover and then hand-numbered on the title page). . 4pp.

All were published in Santa Monica by the  RAND Corporation in 1949. They appear to be offset printed, though elsewhere on the web the process is described as an early chemical photocopy process of the original typescript. All are identically bound  with three brass brads in their original stiffish paper outer wrappers.

The four papers:  [Sold]

 

The color in the image below scanned unevenly due to me not being able to press the publication flat against the scanner.  In the original there is no shadowing or discoloration.

Again, the shadowing in the lower left of the pamphlets do not appear in the original--the publications are a little bulky on the boinding side because of the brass brads and did not scan properly.