The Mechanical Integration of Differential Equations [IN:] The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. XXII, No. 251

Published by G. Bell and Sons, London, 1938

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8vo; pp. xiii, 528; Hartree pp. 342-364 [whole volume offered]. A MECCANO DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER. Hartree's important account of the 'differential analyser' with photographs of the Manchester analyser, and Hartree's pioneering Meccano model. The most comprehensive of the early essays on the differential analyser, with diagrams and photographs illustrating the design, accounts of the use and applications of the machine, and a useful bibliography. The Differential Analyser was invented by Vannevar Bush, and first described in print in 1931; Bush's invention was the culmination of a line in computer design that goes back to the work of James and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), most famously the latter's tide-predicting machine. The Differential Analyser was hugely successful, circulating around the world via the unconventional medium of the children's construction-set Meccano. Very good condition: not ex-library; spine with a 5mm split at the top, otherwise very good; internally clean and unmarked throughout; barely noticeable foxing to a handful of page edges, not affecting the Hartree essay. References: not in Origins of Cyberspace, but see no 317.…

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Title
The Mechanical Integration of Differential Equations [IN:] The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. XXII, No. 251
Author
HARTREE, D.R. [Douglas Rayner]
Publisher
G. Bell and Sons, London
Publication year
1938
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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