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9780198537489

Early Scientific Computing in Britain

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198537489

  • ISBN10:

    0198537484

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1990-04-12
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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This concise volume describes the development of scientific computation in Britain in the first half of this century, covering the variety of equipment and the inventors and innovators of the era. Such early computing methods as mathematical tables, slide rules, desk calculators, accounting machines, and differential analyzers are discussed, up to and including early computers and the advent of centralization. This work will appeal to a wide range of readers, including computer scientists, science historians, and all general readers interested in mathematics or computing.

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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
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