Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era

The Mechanical and Electrical Ages
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4471-7410-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

Reihe: History of Computing

Offers an introduction to the history of computing during the ‘first’ (of steam) and the ‘second’ (of electricity) industrial revolution

Suggests that the computing revolution and the industrial revolution were the same, with the one making the other possible and vice versa

Proposes that analog and digital computing technology is inseparable, with their alleged difference actually resulting from either full or restricted view of the computing process

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tympas, Aristotle

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein EDV & Informatik: Geschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- The Delights of the Slide Rule.- Lighting Calculations Lightened.- Like the Poor, the Harmonics Will Always Be With Us.- The Inner Satisfaction That Comes With Each Use of the Alignment Chart.- The Appearance of a Neatly Finished Box.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Aristotle Tympas is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece.