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Eduard Stiefel, in 1948 the first director of the Federal Institute of Technology's newly established Institute of Applied Mathematics, recognized that computers would be essential to this new field of mathematics. Unable to find exactly what he wanted in existing computers, Stiefel developed the ERMETH. This article examines the rationale of, and objectives for, the first Swiss computer.
Published in:
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
(Volume:27
,
Issue:
4
)
Date of Publication: Oct.-Dec. 2005
- Page(s):
- 5 - 22
- ISSN :
- 1058-6180
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 8701088
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/MAHC.2005.58
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 05 December 2005
- Issue Date :
- Oct.-Dec. 2005
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Computer Society
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