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Abstract
This article is based on the Presidential address delivered by Tony Mann to the autumn meeting of the BSHM in October 2011.
Notes
1 The talks can be watched at http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/early-mathematics-day (accessed January 2012).
2 For a description see Wikipedia, ‘MONIAC Computer’, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer (accessed January 2012). The Science Museum Catalogue entry is at ‘Phillip’s (sic) Economic Computer (1949)', http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/computing_and_data_processing/1995-210.aspx (accessed January 2012). A video demonstration is available on Youtube, ‘Bill Phillips Moniac Economic Analog Computer’, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVOhYROKeu4 (accessed January 2012).
3 J J O’Connor and E F Robertson, ‘The MacTutor history of mathematics archive: William Burnside’, (2005), http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Burnside.htm (accessed January 2012).
4 (Makin Citation1673); The book is anonymous, and Noel Malcolm for one does not accept the attribution to Makin (Malcolm and Stedall Citation2005, 232).
5 The Guardian, ‘1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: Bad sex award extract' (2011) http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/25/haruki-murakami-bad-sex-award, (accessed January 2012).
6 Peter M Neumann, review of Duel at dawn, LMS Newsletter, 396 (2010) 21–22 (available at http://old.lms.ac.uk/newsletter/396/396_issue.pdf (accessed January 2012).