Timeline for Book recommendation on human "computers"
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| Dec 12, 2020 at 12:31 | comment | added | Buffy | @GypsySpellweaver, there is also an illustrated version for still younger readers as well as translations into many other languages. | |
| Dec 12, 2020 at 4:50 | comment | added | Gypsy Spellweaver | The book, while less entertaining, is considerably more informative than the movie. Perhaps as a class, the movie could be watched, and then the book recommended. Reference here is to the adult book, as I've never encountered, or knew of, the book for young readers. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 15:43 | comment | added | Buffy | Actually, business calculations were automated long before that era since they were more "regular". Start here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card) and click a lot of links. Find the IBM card sorter along the way. But the mathematics employed by Johnson and her peers was Analytic Geometry, which is now considered an elementary subject, but it wasn't then. I once knew a woman (lots older than myself) who earned her PhD for Analytic Geometry. Probably that isn't possible now. Math advances. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 14:48 | comment | added | Gergely | Thanks indeed. These are about high mathematics, rocket trajectories and the like. I'm also interested in those who did business calculations, the more profane works. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 13:39 | vote | accept | Gergely | ||
| Dec 11, 2020 at 13:37 | history | edited | Buffy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2020 at 13:29 | history | answered | Buffy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |