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261A Task that Exceeded the Technology: Early Applications of the Computer to the Lunar Three-body ProblemRevue de Synthèse 139 (3-4): 267-288. 2018.The lunar Three-Body problem is a famously intractable problem of Newtonian mechanics. The demand for accurate predictions of lunar motion led to practical approximate solutions of great complexity, constituted by trigonometric series with hundreds of terms. Such considerations meant there was demand for high speed machine computation from astronomers during the earliest stages of computer development. One early innovator in this regard was Wallace J. Eckert, a Columbia University professor of a…Read more
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18Paul E. Ceruzzi. Computing: A Concise History. xvi + 176 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2012. $11.95 (review)Isis 104 (3): 640-641. 2013.Book Review: "Paul E. Ceruzzi. Computing: A Concise History." Isis, 104, No. 3 (September 2013), pp. 640-641
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26"Martin Campbell-Kelly; William Aspray; Nathan Ensmenger; Jeffery R. Yost. Computer: A History of the Information Machine." Isis, 105 (3), September 2014, pp. 622-623.
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11David Alan Grier. When Computers Were Human. 424 pp., apps., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. $19.95 (review)Isis 99 (4): 870-871. 2008.Book Review: "David Alan Grier. When Computers Were Human." Isis, 99 (4), December 2008, pp. 870-871.
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science
PhD, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada