Category: Computing History

Numerical analysis.

By: HARTREE, Douglas Rayner (1897-1958).

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Oxford:, Clarendon Press, 1952. : 1952

Seller ID: S6762

8vo. xiv, 287 pp. 31 figs., bibliog., index. Navy cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket. Ownership rubber stamps of Robert L. White. Fine. FIRST EDITION. "Calculation originally, and over a long period, meant numerical calculation ? the repertoire of arithmetical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and procedures such as extraction of square roots, which could be applied to arbitrary numbers: integers, fractions, and rational, irrational and transcendental numbers. Subsequent developments of such procedures into powerful methods for the solution of general mathemat...
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer.

By: [BABBAGE, Charles] HYMAN, Anthony.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Princeton, NJ:, Princeton University Press, 1982. : 1982

Seller ID: S10224

ISBN-13: 9780691083032

8vo. xv, 287 pp. Frontis. port. of Babbage, 21 plates, 18 figs. & drawings, index. Green cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Embossed ownership stamp on half-title. Near fine. ISBN: 0691083037 Dust jacket present.
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A history of computing in the twentieth century; a collection of essays.

By: [Computing History] METROPOLIS, Nicholas (1915-1999), Jack HOWLETT (1912-1999); Gian-Carlo ROTA (1932-), editors.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, etc.:, Academic Press, 1980. : 1980

Seller ID: S6811

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xix, 659 pp. Figs., tables. Black cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. This book "contains over 30 papers that focus on the major computer and programming developments in the United States and abroad from 1935 to 1955. There is appropriate attention to British, German, Japanese, and even Russian work, . . ." [review]. "Original versions of these papers were presented at the International Research Conference on the History of Computing, held at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 10-15 June 1976." "Dr Jack Howlett, was a Founder Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Ap...
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Category: Computing History

Numerical analysis.

Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer.

A history of computing in the twentieth century; a collection of essays.