Empire of the sum
the rise and reign of the pocket calculator
Book - 2023
"The hidden history of the pocket calculator -- a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon -- and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life." -- back cover
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 520 | |a "The hidden history of the pocket calculator -- a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon -- and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life." -- back cover | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-362) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The hand -- The abacus -- The slide rule -- The clockwork age -- The arithmometer and the curta -- The Friden STW-10 -- The Casio 14-A -- The Sumlock Anita -- The Olivetti Programma 101 -- The Texas Instruments Cal Tech -- The Busicom 141-PF -- The Hewlett-Packard HP-35 -- The Pulsar Time computer calculator -- The Texas Instruments TI-81 -- Software Arts Visicalc. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Mathematical instruments |x History. | |
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