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HARVARD UNIVERSITY COMPUTATION LABORATORY: MARK I COMPUTER
The Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1945-1955.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY COMPUTATION LABORATORY: MARK I COMPUTER

The Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1945-1955.
11 volumes from the series, including volumes II, V, IX, XII, XIII, XVI, XVIII, XX, XXVI, XXVII, and XXXV. 4to. All in publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles on spine. Various library marks, rubbed, bumps and chipping to spines and corners, internal library markings, light soiling and handling wear.
Provenance: From the estate of Serge Roubé.

Harvard University's Computation Laboratory was established in 1944 when IBM gave the university the Mark I electromechanical general use computer. The titles of the volumes as follows:
II: Tables of the Modified Hankel Functions of Order One-Third and of their Derivatives.
V: Tables of Bessel Functions of the First Kind of Orders Four, Five, and Six.
IX: Tables of Bessel Functions of the First Kind of Orders Sixteen through Twenty-Seven.
XII: Tables of Bessel Functions of the First Kind of Orders Fifty-Two through Sixty-Three.
XIII: Tables of Bessel functions of the First Kind of Orders Sixty-Four through Seventy-Eight.
XVI: Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery
XVIII: Tables of Generalized Sine- and Cosine-Integral Functions: Part I.
XX: Tables of Inverse Hyperbolic Functions.
XXVI: Proceedings of a Second Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery.
XXVII: Synthesis of Electronic Computing and Control Circuits.
XXXV: Tables of the Cumulative Binomial Probability Distribution.

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