A Bibliographic Guide to Resources in Scientific Computing, 1945-1975: 15 (Bibliographies and Indexes in Library and Information Science) - Hardcover

Jeffrey R. Yost

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313316813 ISBN 13: 9780313316814

Publisher: Greenwood (UK), 2002

Synopsis

An essential contribution to the study of the history of computers, this work identifies the computer's impact on the physical, biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. References fundamental to the understudied area of the history of scientific computing also document the significant role of the sciences in helping to shape the development of computer technology. More broadly, the many resources on scientific computing help demonstrate how the computer was the most significant scientific instrument of the 20th century.

The only guide of its kind covering the use and impact of computers on the the physical, biological, medical, and cognitive sciences, it contains more than 1,000 annotated citations to carefully selected secondary and primary resources. Historians of technology and science will find this a very useful resource. Computer scientists, physicians, biologists, chemists, and geologists will also benefit from this extensive bibliography on the history of computer applications and the sciences.

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About the Author

JEFFREY R. YOST is Associate Director of Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Information Technology at the University of Minnesota. He has published and edited scholarship in a number of areas on the business, social, cultural, scientific, and intellectual history of computing, software and networking.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenwood (UK)
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313316813
• ISBN 13: 9780313316814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272