Book ID: CBB361007121

Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing (2021)

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Bruderer, Herbert (Author)


Springer


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 2083
Language: English

This Third Edition is the first English-language edition of the award-winning Meilensteine der Rechentechnik; illustrated in full color throughout in two volumes. The Third Edition is devoted to both analog and digital computing devices, as well as the world's most magnificient historical automatons and select scientific instruments (employed in astronomy, surveying, time measurement, etc.). It also features detailed instructions for analog and digital mechanical calculating machines and instruments, and is the only such historical book with comprehensive technical glossaries of terms not found in print or in online dictionaries. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography based on the literature of numerous countries around the world.Meticulously researched, the author conducted a worldwide survey of science, technology and art museums with their main holdings of analog and digital calculating and computing machines and devices, historical automatons and selected scientific instruments in order to describe a broad range of masterful technical achievements. Also covering the history of mathematics and computer science, this work documents the cultural heritage of technology as well.

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Authors & Contributors
Copeland, B. Jack
Ulivi, Elisabetta
Anderson, David
Bowen, Jonathan P.
Corry, Leo
Daylight, Edgar G.
Journals
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
History of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Publishers
Aurum
Birkhäuser
Lonely Scholar Scientific Books
Oxford University Press
Springer
The MIT Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Computers and computing
Computer science
Calculating machines
Mathematical instruments
Biographies
People
Turing, Alan Mathison
Church, Alonzo
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Gödel, Kurt
Knuth, Donald Ervin
Lehmer, Derrick Henry
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
14th century
20th century
15th century
Medieval
Places
Italy
Great Britain
Florence (Italy)
China
France
Poland
Institutions
Science Museum, London
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