Gertrude Blanch of the Mathematical Tables Project
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- Vol. 19 (4) , 18-27
- https://doi.org/10.1109/85.627896
Abstract
Gertrude Blanch can be viewed as either the last and most important leader of human computers or one of the first numerical analysts for electronic computers. From 1938 to 1948, she was the technical director of the Mathematical Tables Project, the largest and most sophisticated of the human computing groups. During that period, she organized the literature of computing and numerical analysis. After the Mathematical Tables Project became the Computation Laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards, Blanch went on to develop numerical analysis for the early computers, working first for the Institute for Numerical Analysis, next for the Computer Division of Consolidated Engineering (later ElectroData), and finally for the Air Force's Aeronautical Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- Exploring the architecture of an early machine: the historical relevance of the ENIAC machine architectureIEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 1996
- When Computers Were HumanIEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 1991
- Early Computing and Numerical Analysis at the National Bureau of StandardsIEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 1989
- Reminiscences about the origins of linear programmingOperations Research Letters, 1982
- Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of StandardsPublished by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ,1966
- The Internal Temperature-Density Distribution of the Sun.The Astrophysical Journal, 1941
- Properties of the Veneroni Transformation in S 4American Journal of Mathematics, 1936