Leaders of the Information Age. Edited by David Weil. 2004. 626 p

Leaders of the Information Age. Edited by David Weil. 2004. 626 p.

The code-breaking activities of the British Government Code & Cipher School at Bletchley Park have dominated our understanding of the secret war to infiltrate the message system of the German forces in Europe between 1939 and 1945. This is the story of the US Navy’s response to the need to gain intelligence to win the Battle of the Atlantic in 1941 and 1942, the competitive development of mechanical code-breaking systems, and the contributions of NCR engineer Joseph Desch and 600 Navy WAVES.

Handsome proceedings of a conference which took place in May 1988 at Hofstra U. (Hempstead, NY). Contains the texts of twenty-two presentations by persons (Peter Lax, George Mackey, Donald Ornstein, Francis Murray, Jack Cowan, many others) who were privileged to know John von Neumann. Some speak mainly about the man himself, others about recent developments in fields into which he breathed life. Includes photos, and the previously unpublished text of a paper (1946) by Herman Goldstine & John von Neumann "On the principles of large scale computing machines". (NW) Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The ideas of John von Neumann have had a profound influence on modern mathematics and science. One of the great thinkers of our century, von Neumann initiated major branches of mathematics---from operator algebras to game theory to scientific computing---and had a fundamental impact on such areas as self-adjoint operators, ergodic theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics, and numerical analysis and the design of the modern computer.

This volume contains the proceedings of an AMS Symposium in Pure Mathematics, held at Hofstra University, in May 1988. The symposium brought together some of the foremost researchers in the wide range of areas in which von Neumann worked. These articles illustrate the sweep of von Neumann's ideas and thinking and document their influence on contemporary mathematics. In addition, some of those who knew von Neumann when he was alive have presented here personal reminiscences about him. This book is directed to those interested in operator theory, game theory, ergodic theory, and scientific computing, as well as to historians of mathematics and others having an interest in the contemporary history of the mathematical sciences. This book will give readers an appreciation for the workings of the mind of one of the mathematical giants of our time.

Lehmer D. N. Hunting big game in the theory of numbers // Scripta Mathematica, 1, 1933. P. 229-235.

Lehmer D. H. The History of the Sieve Process / Metropolis N., Howlett J., Rota G.-C., eds. A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century. Academic Press, Inc., N.-Y. 1980. P. 445-456.

Lesourne J., Armand R. A Brief History of the First Decade of SEMA // AHC, Vol. 13, № 4, October-December 1991. P. 341-349.

Levey M., Petruck M. Kushyâr ibn Labbân: Principles of Hindu Reckoning. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1965. 114 p.

Levitt, Gerald M. The Turk, Chess Automaton. McFarland & Company, 2000. 258 p.

Lévy, Pierre. The Invention of the Computer / Michel Serres (ed.). A History of Scientific Thought: Elements of a History of Science. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. P. 636-663.

Lewin C. G. An Early Book on Compound Interest // Journal Institute of Actuaries, vol. 96, 1970. P. 121-132.

Lewin R. Ultra Goes to War: The first account of World War IIs greatest secret based on official documents. N.-Y.: McGrow-Hill, 1978. 397 p.

Light J. When Computers Were Women // Technology & Culture, vol. 40, 1999. P. 455-483.

Lindgren M. Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Muller, Charles Babbage, and Georg and Edvard Scheutz. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. 415 p.

This book is the first to provide a unified picture of the difference engines that were the mechanical predecessors of today's digital computer, to emphasize them as part of the history of numerical tables, and to give equal weight to the technical and social aspects of their creation.

The story of Georg and Edvard Scheutz is a well written and entertaining scientific book. A young schoolboy, Edvard Scheutz, succeeds in his kitchen to construct a difference engine that works better then that of the famous Charles Babbage. The story of how father and son struggle together to make their difference engine a profitable invention is incredibly interesting both in a technical and economical aspect but also in a social aspect. Interesting is of course also why a genious invention like theirs becomes such a financial failure.

Lindsay, David. Talking Head // American Heritage of Invention and Technology, vol. 13, 1997. P. 57-63.

“Говорящая голова” Йозефа Фабера.

Edmund Berkeley established himself as an influential force in the early development of computer science. This article examines Berkeley’s work with symbolic logic and explores how this knowledge shaped his ideas about early electronic computers. It further explores how Berkeley applied symbolic logic and human reasoning to the design of relay computers, especially machines designed for the insurance industry.

In this personal memoir, electrical engineer David Lundstrom recalls the heyday of early computing - the rise of Control Data out of the Univac division of Sperry Rand, such milestone computer systems as the Univac and the Naval Tactical Data System the exploits of CDC's top designer Seymour Cray, and the gradual corporate shift from the exciting and technically interesting world of computer design to internal politics and clumsy bureaucracy.

This volume is the reprinted edition of the first full-scale biography of the man widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the century after Einstein.

An incredible book, probably the most comprehensive contemporary book in it's coverage of the subject. It has incredible photographs of items which can been seen in museums only.