Early Scientific Computing in Britain
Seiten
1990
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-853748-9 (ISBN)
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-853748-9 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Acknowledgements; List of plates; 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; Appendices; References
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.3.1990 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 8 pp halftones, tables |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 420 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-853748-4 / 0198537484 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-853748-9 / 9780198537489 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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