Early analog computers in Sweden - With examples from Chalmers university of technology and the Swedish aerospace industry

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 27-33

  Johansson, Magnus ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ANALOG DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZERS; CALCULATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

ANALOG COMPUTING; COMPUTER INDUSTRY; COMPUTER PRODUCTION; INTEGRAPH; ISOGRAPH; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MACHINES; SWEDEN; TECHNOLOGY POLICY MAKING;

ANALOG COMPUTERS;

EID: 0030261019     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.539913     Document Type: Article

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