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Calculating Machines Recent & Prospective Developments.

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Book Description

First edition. Small 8vo. pp. 40; 2 photo. illusts. of ENIAC; very good in original printed wrappers, a little marked, ownership inscription of D. W. Sciama to front wrapper.
Dealer Notes
Hartree’s overview of the subject includes his work at the University of Pennsylvania on ENIAC, the first programmable digital computer. This copy belonged to Dennis W. Sciama (1926-99), author of Modern Cosmology (1971), who studied at Cambridge and Oxford, where his students included Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees, and John Barrow.
Author Hartree, D. R.
Date 1947
Binding Original printed wrappers
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Condition See description
Pages 40

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