This book is 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. British computational work is examined from an organizational perspective and the concept of centralized computing power is discussed. Computing methods used up to the 1950s ranged from the use of mathematical tables, via slide rules and other mathematical instruments, to desk calculating machines, accounting machines, differential analysers, and early computers.
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`.. sheds a clear and illuminating light on early pioneers such as Comrie and Hartree and provides an essential link between their work and that of their more famous heirs from the electronic digital era.' Nature



Book Information
ISBN 9780198537489
Author Mary Croarken
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint Clarendon Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 163mm * 15mm