Early Scientific Computing in Britain
- List Price: $165.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Publish date: 04/12/1990
Description:
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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