With frontispiece portrait of Ada augusta, Countess of Lovelace, and 18 photographic plates, plus 2 folding tables (the first one is torn out of the book but present). Publisher's cloth. Ownership signature of the English mathematician P(eter) Swinnerton-Dyer (1927-2018), who specialized in number theory, and was known for his part in the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.

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Title: Faster than thought. A symposium on digital computing machines
Publisher: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London
Publication Date: 1953
Edition: FIRST EDITION.

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