Principia Mathematica. by WHITEHEAD, Alfred North and RUSSELL, Bertrand:

Wien / Berlin.: Medusa Verlag., 1984.. Orig.Pappe.. 8°. Einband leicht eingerissen, sonst gut erhalten. ISBN 385446097X.

Cambridge, At the University Press, 1957. Hardcover, no dust jacket. All volumes: Ex-Libris with usual library matter and stamps to upper, lower, and outer edges of text; Slight browning and slight wear on all edges of text; Cover slightly worn on facing. Volume II slight linear imprint on front cover. Volume III cover faded on upper front edge. Otherwise VG. 674, 742, and 491 pages. (Heavy item, will require additional shipping fees)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927; 1935. Second edition. Good. 3 volumes, 27 cm. Original blue cloth. Volume 1 a later printing (1935), volumes 2 and 3 first printing of 1927 Second Edition. Light foxing, some pencil notes. Not crisp, but sound and entire.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950. First edition of volume one and second editions of volumes two and three, in the rare dust jackets of Russell and Whitehead's monumental work. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Rare and desirable. Probably named after Isaac Newton's great work, "Principia Mathematica was Whitehead and Russell s detailed account of their logicist thesis that mathematics could be derived solely from logical concepts and by logical methods [it] has had an influence, direct and indirect, of near Newtonian proportions upon the spheres of its chief influence: mathematical logic, set theory, the foundations of mathematics, linguistic analysis and analytical philosophy" (Grattan-Guinness, p. 89). "Whether they know it or not, all modern logicians are the heirs of Whitehead and Russell" (Palgrave, p. 20). In very good to near fine condition with volumes two and three in the rare original dust jackets, endpapers renewed to volume one.

Cambridge: at the University Press, 1913. First edition. 'THE GREATEST SINGLE CONTRIBUTION TO LOGIC SINCE ARISTOTLE' . First edition of this monumental work, one of the great rarities of modern science and mathematics, "the greatest single contribution to logic that has appeared in the two thousand years since Aristotle" (DNB). "In this monumental study of logic and set theory, Russell and Whitehead took up the task ... of proving the logical basis of all mathematics by deducing the whole body of mathematical doctrine from a small number of primitive ideas and principles of logical inference. To do so, Russell and Whitehead devised a complex but precise system of symbols that enabled them to sidestep the ambiguities of ordinary language, and to give an exposition of sentential logic that has hardly been improved upon since" (Norman). Probably named after Isaac Newton's great work, Principia Mathematica "has had an influence, direct and indirect, of near Newtonian proportions upon the spheres of its… Read More