@martin_casado: Are there any good books describing how the math / physics community responded to early computers solving integrals tha…
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Martin Casado asks for book recommendations about how the math and physics communities reacted to early computers solving integrals previously thought impossible to solve analytically, noting this reception is a missing piece of tech history knowledge.
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