The Man Who Invented The Computer: The Biography Of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer

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The Man Who Invented The Computer: The Biography Of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer

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From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois---Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, com