Early scientific computing in Britain
Choice Reviews Online · 1990
Acknowledgements List of plates Introduction Background: aids to computation The mechanization of computation at the Nautical Almanac Office The Nautical Almanac Office as a computing centre and the founding of the Scientific Computing Service The influence of analogue machines in the 1930s: the Manchester and Cambridge differential analysers The Second World War: the emergence of government computing centres The creation of a national computing centre The National Physical Laboratory Mathematics Division: a national computing centre Post-war computing service centres Computing machine developments at Cambridge and Manchester Appendices References