Calculating Machines Recent Prospective Developments by Hartree (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. From an academic library with the usual stamps etc. A00021762.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 154 pages. 8.98x5.98x0.71 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

First edition. Small 8vo. pp. 40; 2 photo. illusts. of ENIAC; very good in original printed wrappers, a little marked, ownership inscription of D. W. Sciama to front wrapper. Hartree's overview of the subject includes his work at the University of Pennsylvania on ENIAC, the first programmable digital computer. This copy belonged to Dennis W. Sciama (1926-99), author of Modern Cosmology (1971), who studied at Cambridge and Oxford, where his students included Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees, and John Barrow.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1947 Cambridge University Press first edition, small format softcover with French flaps. Light chip to spine. Bottom corner front flap is clipped. No marks. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good in Wraps. First Edition. First Edition. Original Wraps. First printing of Hartree's famous inauguration speech, as issued. "[T]he first booklet on electronic computers separately published by a conventional publisher, and also one of the earliest discussions of how these machines could be used in scientific calculations . Hartree reported his experiences with ENIAC and touched upon the possible future applications of large general-purpose computers in science, medicine and economics". [Origins of Cyberspace 649] This work marks tipping point between computers being an academic and scientific curiosity to a tool which would revolutionize scientific research and the world as a whole. "This can be seen as the start of Hartree's work on bringing computers and their potential to the attention of the scientific community." [Dictionary of Scientific Biography]. [N.B. Published in 1947, there is an interesting question as to whether Hartree knew of the classified work done at Bletchley park and the creation and use of the Colossus machines for code-breaking purposes.however, he certainly moved in social and scientific circles which suggest he might.] Uncommon generally, scare as issued and found here. Cloth tape reinforcing spine, ownership signature at front wrapper, stamped number at bottom right for title page, two-hole punched, holes neatly covered on front and back cover by cloth tape, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Original light brown wraps, dark red ink lettering. 12mo. 40pp. Illus. [b/w plates]. References.