Early Scientific Computing in Britain

Name: Early Scientific Computing in Britain
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198537489
Price: 9200 KES
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ISBN: 9780198537489

by Mary Croarken

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0198537484

ISBN-13 9780198537489

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Clarendon Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 15th, 1990

Print length 176 Pages

Weight 420 grams

Dimensions 23.70 x 16.30 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: History of engineering & technology Computer science

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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.

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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