Research Catalog

Title

Calculating machines : recent and prospective developments and their impact on mathematical physics ; and, Calculating instruments and machines / by Douglas R. Hartree ; with a new introduction by Maurice V. Wilkes.

Author

Hartree, Douglas R. (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; Los Angeles : Tomash Publishers, c1984.

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Details

Description

xvi, 40, viii, 138 p., [3] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Charles Babbage Institute reprint series for the history of computing ; v. 6

Alternative Title

Calculating instruments and machines.

Subject

• Calculators
• Computers
• Mathematical instruments

Note

• Reprint (1st work). Originally published: Cambridge, England : University Press, 1947.
• Reprint (2nd work). Originally published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1949.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Call Number

JSE 86-1367

ISBN

0262081474

LCCN

84009753

OCLC

• 10753236
• NYPG86-B56901

Author

Hartree, Douglas R. (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958.

Title

Calculating machines : recent and prospective developments and their impact on mathematical physics ; and, Calculating instruments and machines / by Douglas R. Hartree ; with a new introduction by Maurice V. Wilkes.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; Los Angeles : Tomash Publishers, c1984.

Series

The Charles Babbage Institute reprint series for the history of computing ; v. 6

Bibliography

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Added Author

Hartree, Douglas R. (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958. Calculating instruments and machines.

Added Title

Calculating instruments and machines.

Research Call Number

JSE 86-1367