Book:Vicenç Torra/From the Abacus to the Digital Revolution

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Vicenç Torra: From the Abacus to the Digital Revolution: Algorithms and computing

Published $\text {2017}$, National Geographic

ISBN 978-84-473-8847-9


National Geographic "Our Mathematical World" series: $15$


Contents

Preface


Chapter 1. The First Centuries of Computation: Positional Numbering
Chapter 2. Medieval Europe
Chapter 3. The First Mechanical Calculating Instruments
Chapter 4. Hardware in the 20th Century
Chapter 5. Programming and Software


Bibliography
Index