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A Bibliographic Guide to Resources in Scientific Computing, 1945-1975
Jeffrey R. Yost
Book Code: GR1681
ISBN: 0-313-31681-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31681-4
272 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/2002
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2003
Reviews:
  • Yost offers researchers investigating the first three decades of computing a well-researched, coherently arranged, elegantly annotated reference source. It includes primary and secondary English-language materials that meet the author's criteria of originality, analysis, and contextual value. Especially valuable are the descriptions of "hidden" (hard-to-find) resources, such as archival materials....The book's introduction easily stands on its own as a nicely crafted primer of computing history. An outstanding resource and unique key to the historical role of computing as a tool of science. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and higher.
    —Choice     November 2003
  • [A] very useful guide to the first three decades of computer applications to scientific purposes....This should save researchers a good deal of search time.
    —Communication Booknotes Quarterly     Summer 2004
  • Yost has done a thorough job in compliling a wealth of comprehensive and unique sources.... A well-researched and comprehensive bibliography, this guide would be appropriate for academic libraries.
    —E-Streams     May 2003
Description: An essential contribution to the study of the history of computers, this work identifies the computer's impact on the physical, biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. References fundamental to the understudied area of the history of scientific computing also document the significant role of the sciences in helping to shape the development of computer technology. More broadly, the many resources on scientific computing help demonstrate how the computer was the most significant scientific instrument of the 20th century. The only guide of its kind covering the use and impact of computers on the the physical, biological, medical, and cognitive sciences, it contains more than 1,000 annotated citations to carefully selected secondary and primary resources. Historians of technology and science will find this a very useful resource. Computer scientists, physicians, biologists, chemists, and geologists will also benefit from this extensive bibliography on the history of computer applications and the sciences.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The History and Documentation of Scientific Computing, 1945-1975
  • Physical Sciences
  • Cognitive Science
  • Biological Sciences
  • Medical Sciences
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
LC Card Number: 2002069622
LCC Class: Z7405
Dewey Class: 016
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