Mary Croarken
Early Scientific Computing in Britain
Gebonden Engels 1990 9780198537489Levertijd ongeveer 11 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
A study of how scientific computation developed in British universities, the scientific civil service, and the armed services during the period 1900-1950. It describes the emergence of computing laboratories in Britain, along with the machines and personalities involved.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780198537489
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:176
Uitgever:Clarendon Press
Hoofdrubriek:Wetenschap en techniek, Computer en informatica
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Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements; List of plates; Introduction; Background: aids to computation; The mechanization of computation at the Nautical Almanac Office; The Nautical Almanac Office as a computing centre and the founding of the Scientific Computing Service; The influence of analogue machines in the 1930s: the Manchester and Cambridge differential analysers; The Second World War: the emergence of government computing centres; The creation of a national computing centre; The National Physical Laboratory Mathematics Division: a national computing centre; Post-war computing service centres; Computing machine developments at Cambridge and Manchester; Appendices; References
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