A Bibliographic Guide to Resources in Scientific Computing, 1945-1975

An essential contribution to the study of the history of computers, this work identifies the computer's impact on the physical, biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. References fundamental to the understudied area of the history of scientific computing also document the significant role of the sciences in helping to shape the development of computer technology. More broadly, the many resources on scientific computing help demonstrate how the computer was the most significant scientific instrument of the 20th century.

The only guide of its kind covering the use and impact of computers on the the physical, biological, medical, and cognitive sciences, it contains more than 1,000 annotated citations to carefully selected secondary and primary resources. Historians of technology and science will find this a very useful resource. Computer scientists, physicians, biologists, chemists, and geologists will also benefit from this extensive bibliography on the history of computer applications and the sciences.

List of contents

Introduction: The History and Documentation of Scientific Computing, 1945-1975
Physical Sciences
Cognitive Science
Biological Sciences
Medical Sciences
Author Index
Subject Index

About the author

JEFFREY R. YOST is Associate Director and Research Historian at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey R. Yost, Yost Jeffrey R.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2002
• EAN: 9780313316814
• ISBN: 978-0-313-31681-4
• Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in Library and Information Science
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Technology, History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, MATHEMATICS / Applied, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, MATHEMATICS / Discrete Mathematics, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1950 to c 1959, History: specific events and topics, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Maths for scientists, Maths for computer scientists, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1945 To C 1960, Bibliographies, catalogues