拍品 819
  • 819

THE ANNALS OF THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY COMPUTATION LABORATORY, 29 VOLUMES

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  • A collection of 29 volumes, comprising:
i. A Manual of operation for the automatic sequence controlled calculator. Volume I. 1946, (Edmund Callis Berkeley, his inscription; bought from Morgan, 1988), [T&W H44, Origins of Cyberspace 411; Randell 1982 pp.431-432]ii. Tables of the modified Hankel functions of order one-third and of their derivatives. Volume II. 1945, [T&W H45, Origins of Cyberspace 410]iii. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders two and three. Volume IV. 1947, [T&W H46]iv. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders four, five, and six. Volume V. 1947, [T&W H47]v. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders seven, eight and nine. Volume VI. 1947, [T&W H48]vi. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders ten, eleven, and twelve. Volume VII. 1947, [T&W H49] vii. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen. Volume. VIII. 1947, [T&W H50]viii. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders sixteen through twenty-seven. Volume IX. 1948, [T&W H51]ix. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders twenty- eight through thirty-nine. Volume X. 1948, [T&W H52]x. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders forty through fifty-one. Volume XI. 1948, [T&W H53]xi. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders fifty-two through sixty-three. Volume XII. 1949, [T&W H54]xii. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders sixty-four through seventy-eight. Volume XIII. 1949, [T&W H55]xiii. Proceedings of a symposium on large-scale digital calculating machinery. Volume XVI. 1948, (bought from Morgan, 1988), [T&W H56; Origins of Cyberspace 414]xiv. Tables of inverse hyperbolic functions. Volume XX. 1949, [T&W H57]xv. Description of a relay calculator. Volume XXIV. 1949, [T&W H58; Origins of Cyberspace 416]xvi. Description of a magnetic drum calculator. Volume XV. 1952, [T&W H59; Origins of Cyberspace 420]xvii. Tables of generalized sine- and cosine-integral functions: Part II. Volume XIX. 1949, [not in T&W] xviii. Tables of the function sin and of its first eleven derivatives. Volume XXII. 1949, [not in T&W]xix. Tables of the Error function and of its first twenty derivatives. Volume XXIII. 1952, [not in T&W]xx. Proceedings of a second symposium on large-scale digital calculating machinery. Volume XXVI. 1951, (bought from Jeremy Norman, 1994), [T&W H60; Origins of Cyberspace 417]xxi. Synthesis of electronic computing and control circuits. Volume XXVII, 1951. [T&W H61; Origins of Cyberspace 419]xxii. Proceedings of an international symposium on the theory of switching, Part I. Volume XXIX. 1959, [T&W H62; Origins of Cyberspace 429]xxiii. Tables of Bessel functions of the first kind of orders two and three. Volume IV. 1947, [T&W H62 bis]xxiv. Proceedings of an international symposium on the theory of switching, Part I. Volume XXIX. 1959, [T&W H62 bis; Origins of Cyberspace 429]xxv. Proceedings of an international symposium on the theory of switching, Part II. Volume XXX. 1959, [T&W H63]xxvi. Proceedings of a Harvard Symposium on Digital Computers and their Applications 3-6 April 1961. Volume XXXI. 1962, [not in T&W]xxvii. Tables of the cumulative binomial probability distribution. Volume XXXV. 1955, [T&W H64] xxviii. Tables of the cumulative binomial probability distribution. Volume XXXV. 1955, [T&W H64 bis]xxix. Tables of the function arc sin z. Volume XL. 1956, [T&W H65] all Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 4to, original blue cloth, 11 with dust-jackets, dust-jackets chipping with some loss, rubbed

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