The man who invented the computer : the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer /
One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined...
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: |
Smiley, Jane |
Format: | Book
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Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Doubleday,
[2010]
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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