Author: Gabriele RabelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic digital computers
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Mathematical Instruments and Calculating Machines
Author: Gabriele RabelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic digital computers
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Calculating Instruments and Machines
Author: Douglas R. HartreePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107630657
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Originally published in 1950, this book was based on a short series of lectures given by the author at the University of Illinois in 1948. Aimed at the non-specialist, the chief aim of the text was to provide a general introduction to contemporary developments in the field of calculating instruments and machines. But there is some treatment of the historical side of the subject, with appreciation shown for the vision and foresight of key pioneers Charles Babbage and Lord Kelvin. This is a concise and informative volume that will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development and history of computation.
Calculating Machines
Author: Douglas Rayner HartreePublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Calculating machines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In these lectures, Hartree provided the first comprehensive survey of the significant developments in computation that were going on at the time.
Computations and Computing Devices in Mathematics Education Before the Advent of Electronic Calculators
Author: Alexei VolkovPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319733966
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
This volume traces back the history of interaction between the “computational” or “algorithmic” aspects of elementary mathematics and mathematics education throughout ages. More specifically, the examples of mathematical practices analyzed by the historians of mathematics and mathematics education who authored the chapters in the present collection show that the development (and, in some cases, decline) of counting devices and related computational practices needs to be considered within a particular context to which they arguably belonged, namely, the context of mathematics instruction; in their contributions the authors also explore the role that the instruments played in formation of didactical approaches in various mathematical traditions, stretching from Ancient Mesopotamia to the 20th century Europe and North America.
Calculating Instruments and Machines
Author: Douglas Rayner HartrekPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Calculators
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Origin of Modern Calculating Machines
Author: J. A. V. TurckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calculators
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Survey of Mathematical Instruments and Machines Used in Calculation
Author: Asta E. BowenMechanical Arithmetic
Author: Dorr Eugene FeltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calculators
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation
Author: Ellice Martin HorsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calculators
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Didactical Challenge of Symbolic Calculators
Author: Dominique GuinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387234357
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A significant driver of recent growth in the use of mathematics in the professions has been the support brought by new technologies. Not only has this facilitated the application of established methods of mathematical and statistical analysis but it has stimulated the development of innovative approaches. These changes have produced a marked evolution in the professional practice of mathematics, an evolution which has not yet provoked a corresponding adaptation in mathematical education, particularly at school level. In particular, although calculators -- first arithmetic and scientific, then graphic, now symbolic -- have been found well suited in many respects to the working conditions of pupils and teachers, and have even achieved a degree of official recognition, the integration of new technologies into the mathematical practice of schools remains marginal. It is this situation which has motivated the research and development work to be reported in this volume. The appearance of ever more powerful and portable computational tools has certainly given rise to continuing research and development activity at all levels of mathematical education. Amongst pioneers, such innovation has often been seen as an opportunity to renew the teaching and learning of mathematics. Equally, however, the institutionalization of computational tools within educational practice has proceeded at a strikingly slow pace over many years.