The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer by Jane Smiley

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

Jane Smiley

256 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history technology informative slow-paced
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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 frustr...

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