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HARTREE, Calculating machines, 1947
HARTREE, Douglas R.
Calculating machines, Recent & Prospective Developments.
Cambridge, Cambridge university press, 1947.
12mo (183x125 mm), (2)-40 pages and 2 photos. binding : Original printed wrappers.
First edition.
The first published book on computer calculation.
Transcription of the inaugural lesson given by Douglas Hartree in Cambridge after his visit to the ENIAC, the first programmable computer used by the US Army during the war to calculate artillery fire tables and unveiled to the public in 1946.
Hartree is one of the pioneers of numerical analysis, a mathematical discipline that opens the way to computer programming.
He ends the book with this conclusion:
"But keep in your minds the figure i have given, of a million multiplications an hour; think what you could do with this".
references: Hook&Norman [Origins of Cyberspace , 649 :"the 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"].
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