Introduction.- Babbage’s Engines.- Semi-automatic Computing.- Logic, Computability and Formal Systems.- Automating Control.- Logic and the Invention of the Computer.- Machine Code Programming and Logic.- The Invention of Programming Languages.- The Algol Research Programme.- The Logic of Correctness in Software Engineering.- The Unification of Data and Algorithms.- Conclusions.
From the reviews: "Priestley is a computer scientist who has previously published books on object-oriented design and programming. This work, which grew out of the author's PhD thesis, is a history of computer programming and the connections between formal logic and programming. ... much of the historical narrative should be accessible to all readers ... . Summing Up: Recommended. History of computing collections serving graduate students through professionals and general audiences." (B. Borchers, Choice, Vol. 48 (11), August, 2011) "This is a book written for specialist historians, and is priced accordingly. ... an important book, and one which will be of interest and use to a broad range of scholars working on topics in mathematics, logic, computing or the history of information technology more generally. ... this book does it does well, and there is no comparable work encompassing such an impressive breadth of material or detail. For historians of computing, The Science of Operations will become an essential text." (Nathan Ensmenger, British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 45 (1), March, 2012)
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