Timeline for Mathematical computer desk [closed]
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| Nov 7, 2012 at 18:18 | vote | accept | Papiro | ||
| Aug 18, 2012 at 2:43 | history | closed |
Felipe Voloch Emil Jeřábek Suvrit Igor Rivin user6976 |
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| Aug 17, 2012 at 18:30 | answer | added | Barry Cipra | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 17, 2012 at 15:50 | answer | added | user9072 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 17, 2012 at 14:53 | comment | added | Papiro | @Igor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmometer | |
| Aug 17, 2012 at 14:51 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | What is an arithmometer? | |
| Aug 17, 2012 at 14:46 | comment | added | user9072 | "I think that this may be the first recorded description of an workplace for numerical analysts..." I cannot prove this wrong but it seems highly unlikely to me in view of the fact that for centuries (not to say millenia) before this task was already carried out. I have a vague recollection of reading Gauss (I think, but definitely that period of time), while not describing the persons working desk, complaining on poor working habits of his (human) computer. | |
| Aug 17, 2012 at 14:31 | history | edited | Papiro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2012 at 14:25 | history | edited | Papiro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2012 at 13:53 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | I don"t know. However, the Deutsches Museen in Munich has a large display devoted to computing machinery from antiquity to mere "ancient history" (I think they have a Macintosh as an exhibit). If anyone has a picture on file, I bet they do or know about it. Gerhard "Ich Wuensche Nach Muenchen Gehen" Paseman, 2012.08.17 | |
| Aug 17, 2012 at 13:42 | history | asked | Papiro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |