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Brooker, Ralph Anthony Brooks, Edward
B 261
Brooker, Ralph Anthony (1925 – )
The solution of algebraic equations on the EDSAC. In
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society,
Vol. 48, Part 2, April 1952, pp. 255–270
Year: 1952
Place: Cambridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: original paper wrappers
Pagination: pp. 255–270
Size: 257x182 mm
Ralph Anthony (Tony) Brooker began his career
in Cambridge but later moved to the University of
Manchester, where he became very influential in the
development of software in Britain. He was responsible
for the Autocode compilers for Manchester’s Ferranti
Mark I and Mercury. Along with Derrick Morris, he
devised the concept of the Compiler Compiler–a program
that, given the syntactic and semantic description of a
programming language, would create a compiler for it.
This is an early paper describing a mathematical
application for EDSAC. It discusses three different
methods of solving for the roots of polynomial equations
and then gives results from EDSAC.
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B 262
Brooks, Edward (1831–1912)
Key to the new normal mental arithmetic: And methods
of teaching mental arithmetic, containing, also,
methods for arithmetical contractions, and a collection
of problems of an interesting and amusing character,
for class exercises.
Year: 1873
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Christopher Sower
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: original printed cloth boards
Pagination: pp. 160
Collation: 1–13 6 14 2
Size: 167x106 mm
Brooks was the superintendent of public schools in
Philadelphia and had previously been the principal of
the Pennsylvania State Normal School. He was known
for his books on arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry,
algebra, etc., all of which were used as teaching aids.
This work, designed for the teacher of arithmetic,
provides a number of instructional hints and games that
may be played with students. The majority of the work
consists of the answers to hundreds of drill problems
that appeared in the student’s text (see another entry for
Brooks, The new normal mental arithmetic, 1873).
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B 263
Brooks, Edward (1831–1912)
The new normal mental arithmetic: A thorough and
complete course by analysis and induction.
Year: 1873
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Christopher Sower Company
Edition: unknown
Language: English
Binding: original embossed cloth boards
Pagination: pp. 176, [4]
Collation: 1–11 8
Size: 167x107 mm
A student textbook on elementary arithmetic, the vast
majority of the work is a collection of drill problems.
The preface makes reference to Recorde’s Whetsone of
Wit.
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