textbook-theory · English
Analog Computing, 2nd Edition
A comprehensive 460-page academic textbook covering the history, theory, and practice of analog computing from mechanical devices (Antikythera mechanism, slide rules, differential analysers) through classic electronic analog computers to hybrid and digital differential analyser systems. The book addresses basic computing elements (op-amps, integrators, summers, multipliers, function generators), programming techniques including scaling and partial differential equations, and an extensive survey of real-world applications spanning aerospace, nuclear engineering, biology, economics, and the arts. A final chapter covers the decline of analog computing in the late 1970s and its anticipated renaissance in low-power computing, AI, and high-performance computing.