"CAUCHY, AUGUSTIN. - THE CLASSICAL ""SAMPLING THEOREM"" STATED.
Reference : 49105
(1841)
(Paris, Bachelier), 1841. 4to. Without wrappers. In ""Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences"", Vol. XII, No 6. Pp. (267-) 316. (Entire issue offered). Cauchy's paper: pp. 283-298. Some scattered brownspots.
First printing of an importent paper in information theory - the paper stating the earliest version of what will later be known as the ""Nyquist Sampling Theorem"", describing how many and what kind of samples are needed to construct a curve.""The theorem will be formulated more completely in 1928 and become one of the cornerstones of information theory"" (Bryan Bunch, 1841 M).