Punched card methods in scientific computation

Author(s)

• Eckert, W. J. (Wallace John)
• McPherson, J. C.

Bibliographic Information

Punched card methods in scientific computation

by W.J. Eckert ; with a new introduction by J.C. McPherson

（The Charles Babbage Institute reprint series for the history of computing, v. 5）

MIT Press , Tomash Publishers, c1984

Note

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Columbia University, 1940

Bibliography: p. xv

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The publication of this book paved the way for computing in the 1940s. It applied the idea of machines which could read and record numbers to the field of scientific calculation previously dominated by logarithms and other tables of functions and hand operated machines for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers."Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation" was originally published in 1940 by the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau. It is Volume V in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series.

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Details

• NCID: BA03852408
• ISBN:
  • 0262050307
• LCCN: 84009724
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.,Los Angeles
• Pages/Volumes: xv, ix, 136 p., [4] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QB51.3.E43
  • DC19 : 510/.28/53
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Punched card systems -- Astronomy
  • LCSH : Punched card systems -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03814318