Publisher:
[no place]:, Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Tecnicas , 1997. : 1997
Seller ID: S11528
Article pages 443-463. Full issue: 443-853, viii pp. Illus. Original printed wrappers. Fine. ISSN 0210-8615 Paper on the making of telegraph communications between the US and Cuba circa 1899 and 1916. Other articles include: Babini on the first computers in Argentina in 1960; Cervera on European missionaries coming to the Far East in the 16th century; Bueno & Lancharro on Francisco Vera, the eminent Argentinian historian of science; Magallon on Spanish women of science in physics and chemistry from 1910-1930, and others. View More...
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New York:, New York University Press, (1989). : 1989
Seller ID: S7159
11 Volumes. 8vo. Figs., index. Full gilt stamped blue cloth. FINE. FIRST EDITION. The complete works of this pioneer mathematician and statistician. Babbage is the father of the modern computer, and worked tirelessly on advancing machinery to reduce human involvement. This comprehensive and attractive set includes all of his most celebrated papers on early calculating machines as well as many others that display the breadth of his talent and interests. DSB. First Edition. View More...
Publisher:
(Providence, RI):, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1965. : 1965
Seller ID: S9606
Contained in Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 19, No. 90, pp. 297-301. 8vo. pp. 177-364. Original printed wrappers bound in. Black cloth, printed paper spine label. Institutional exlib stamp on printed wrapper cover, ownership marks on printed covers. Fine. FIRST EDITION. This important work on the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm, which is an efficient algorithm to compute the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and its inverse. FFTs are of great importance to a wide variety of applications, from digital signal processing and solving partial differential equations to algorithms for quick ... View More...
Publisher:
New York: & London:, John Wiley & Sons; Chapman & Hall, 1951. : 1951
Seller ID: S10244
8vo. xiv, 404 pp. Index. Original blue cloth, printed dust-jacket. Near fine. RARE. The Father of Linear Programming and the Inventor of the "Simplex Method" "Dantzig's paper, originally written in 1947 but not published until 1951, was a fundamental application of computers to problems of management and economics. Dantzig was one of three founders (together with John von Neumann and Leonid Kantorovich) of linear programming, a mathematical method used for the optimum allocation of scarce resources among competing activities. In 1947 Dantzig discovered that many such allocation problems could... View More...
Publisher:
London:, Charles Griffin, (1962). : 1962
Seller ID: S10324
Series: Griffin's Statistical Monographs & Courses, No. 9. 8vo. x, 125 pp. Figs., index; light foxing. Printed wrappers. Very good. INKED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR TO DAVID MIDDLETON. Provenance: David Middleton (b. 1920) is a consulting physicist, applied mathematician, educator and author who is an internationally recognized pioneer in statistical communication theory, a field in which he has been active for more than fifty years. He is author of Topics in Communication Theory (1965?1967, 1987-) and more than 160 papers. Later, Dr. Middleton served as Adjunct Professor of Elect... View More...
Series: Principles of Computer Science Series. 8vo. xxii, 530 pp. Numerous figs. and charts, bibliog., 2 indexes. White-stamped cloth, dust jacket. Floppy disk laid in. Ownership signature of Joseph Juarez. Very good. ISBN: 0881751138 Dust jacket present. View More...
