HARTREE, Douglas Rayner (1897-1958). Calculating Machines. Recent and Prospective Developments. Cambridge: University Press, 1947.

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HARTREE, Douglas Rayner (1897-1958). Calculating Machines. Recent and Prospective Developments. Cambridge: University Press, 1947.

8o (180 x 120 mm). Original wrappers (small ink stain to foot of upper wrapper, minor wear to lower spine end).

FIRST EDITION of Hartree's inaugural address as Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge, reporting on his view of the ENIAC computer at the University of Pennysylvania, the most advanced computer at that time.

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