Svein Rosseland and the Oslo analyzer

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 16-26

  Holst, Per A ^a,b  

^a CHR MICHELSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CALCULATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

MECHANICAL DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER; MECHANICAL MACHINE;

ANALOG DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZERS;

EID: 0030258782     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.539912     Document Type: Article

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