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Clarendon Press, Oxford 1955. Second printing. xiv, 287 pp. Publisher's cloth. Bookplate. Fine condition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Pamphlet in self-wraps, as issued, 216 x 139mm; pp. 1-[30]. EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE SEPARATE PRINTING OF HARTREE'S IMPORTANT LECTURE ON THE DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER Hartree's comprehensive lecture on the 'differential analyser' with photographs of the Manchester analyser, and Hartree's pioneering Meccano model. The Differential Analyser was invented by Vannevar Bush, and first described in print in 1931; Bush's invention was the culmination of a line in computer design that goes back to the work of James and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), most famously the latter's tide-predicting machine. The Differential Analyser was hugely successful, circulating around the world via the unconventional medium of the children's construction-set Meccano. Near fine condition: staples slightly rusty, otherwise in exceptional condition. Just a single copy located on OCLC, at the University of Waterloo Libraries. Not in Origins of Cyberspace.…

254 x 181 mm. Tall 8vo. Pages 550-558. [Entire volume: viii, 645, [2] pp.] 4 tables. Quarter navy morocco, morocco corners, raised bands, gilt spine; spine lightly faded. Blind stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory. Fine. "Hartree and his collaborators evaluated wave functions for more than twenty-five different atomic species in various states of ionization. Through his stimulus and encouragement many more atoms were investigated by physicists throughout the world. Hartree's equations as generalized by V. Fock proved to be extremely valuable in theoretical calculations in sold state physics." DSB, VI, p. 147.…

8vo. xiv, 287 pp. 31 figs., bibliog., index. Navy cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket. Ownership rubber stamps of Robert L. White. Fine. FIRST EDITION. "Calculation originally, and over a long period, meant numerical calculation â" the repertoire of arithmetical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and procedures such as extraction of square roots, which could be applied to arbitrary numbers: integers, fractions, and rational, irrational and transcendental numbers. Subsequent developments of such procedures into powerful methods for the solution of general mathematical problems in numerical terms came to known, in English, as numerical analysis." Ifrah, The universal history of computing, p. 69. DSB, VI, p. 148. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo; pp. xiii, 528; Hartree pp. 342-364 [whole volume offered]. A MECCANO DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER. Hartree's important account of the 'differential analyser' with photographs of the Manchester analyser, and Hartree's pioneering Meccano model. The most comprehensive of the early essays on the differential analyser, with diagrams and photographs illustrating the design, accounts of the use and applications of the machine, and a useful bibliography. The Differential Analyser was invented by Vannevar Bush, and first described in print in 1931; Bush's invention was the culmination of a line in computer design that goes back to the work of James and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), most famously the latter's tide-predicting machine. The Differential Analyser was hugely successful, circulating around the world via the unconventional medium of the children's construction-set Meccano. Very good condition: not ex-library; spine with a 5mm split at the top, otherwise very good; internally clean and unmarked throughout; barely noticeable foxing to a handful of page edges, not affecting the Hartree essay. References: not in Origins of Cyberspace, but see no 317.…