Calculating Instruments and Machines

This book was based on a short series of lectures given by the author at the University of Illinois in 1948. Intended as a general introduction illustrated by Hartree's personal experiences working with ENIAC and the Harvard Mark I, a pioneering work with calculating instruments and machines. Author's first book. Douglas Rayner Hartree FRS was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyzer using Meccano. Boards with light edge-wear. First Edition. 7" - 10".