Recent and Prospective Developments and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics, and Calculating Instruments and Machines
by Douglas Hartree
Introduction by Maurice V. Wilkes
ISBN: 9780262512770
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2009
This reprint of Hartree's principal work also includes his inaugural Cambridge lecture, Calculating Machines: Recent and Prospective Developments and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics, which is extremely difficult to obtain and which makes ideal preliminary reading for the main set of lectures presented in Calculating Instruments and Machines.
If the Mark I itself was a milestone in digital computing, so was this Manual: it was one of the first publications to address the fundamental question of how to get a computer to solve problems.
Coming before the establishment of professional journals, societies, or regular meetings in computer science, the proceedings of the symposium offer the best picture of computing technology in the early years that we have available.
Written but never published during his lifetime, this memoir of the founding father of computing is an indispensable primary source of information about Babbage's personal character and work. It brings...
Graphical and Mechanical Methods for Simplifying Calculation
Translated by J. Howlett and Michael R. Williams
by Maurice d'Ocagne
Introduction by J. Howlett and Michael R. Williams
ISBN: 9780262518987
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 6, 1986
This first translation of d'Ocagne's Le Calcul Simplifié makes a classic work on the early art of computation available to historians of computer science.
This volume brings together for the first time John von Neumann's long-out-of-print articles on computer architecture, programming, large-scale computing, and automata theory.
Translated by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Michael R. Williams
ISBN: 9780262132787
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 20, 1992
This final volume in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint series brings to light an extremely rare German account of the calculating machine industry in the first quarter of this century when the use...
This first English translation of Napier's Rabdologia provides a clear and readable introduction to a group of physical calculating devices, which, long overshadowed by Napier's logarithms, have their own intrinsic interest and charm.
