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'''Robert ''Anthony'' Hyman''' (1928-2011) was a British [[historian of computing]] writer.
'''Robert ''Anthony'' Hyman''' (1928–2011) was a British [[historian of computing]].


Anthony Hyman wrote especially on the early Victorian computer pioneer, [[Charles Babbage]] (1791–1871). He liaised with the [[London Science Museum]], the [[Royal Society]], the [[Crawford Library]], the [[Oxford Museum of the History of Science]], the [[Cambridge University Library]], the [[Edinburgh Royal Observatory]] for source material.<ref>{{cite book| editor-last1=Hyman | editor-first1=Anthony | url=https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/history-science-and-technology/science-and-reform-selected-works-charles-babbage?format=PB&isbn=9780521036764 | date=2007 | title=Science and Reform: Selected works of Charles Babbage | publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] | isbn=978-0521036764 }}</ref>
Anthony Hyman wrote especially on the early Victorian computer pioneer, [[Charles Babbage]] (1791–1871). He liaised with the [[London Science Museum]], the [[Royal Society]], the [[Crawford Library]], the [[Oxford Museum of the History of Science]], the [[Cambridge University Library]], the [[Edinburgh Royal Observatory]] for source material.<ref>{{cite book| editor-last1=Hyman | editor-first1=Anthony | url=https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/history-science-and-technology/science-and-reform-selected-works-charles-babbage?format=PB&isbn=9780521036764 | date=2007 | title=Science and Reform: Selected works of Charles Babbage | publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] | isbn=978-0521036764 }}</ref>

Hyman was born in 1928 in [[London]]. He studied at [[Dartington Hall School|Dartington Hall]] and then [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]. He worked on [[transistor]]s in the early 1950s, became a [[polymer science|polymer scientist]], and then worked as a computer researcher for [[LEO (computer)|English Electric LEO]], before becoming "a free-lance computer consultant and historian of science", and the Alastair Horne Modern History Fellow at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>{{cite book|page=93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NtSqvOPanSEC&pg=PA93|title=Cambridge Scientific Minds|editor1-first=Peter Michael|editor1-last=Harman|editor2-first=Simon|editor2-last=Mitton|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2002|isbn=9780521786126}}</ref> In 1962, Hyman married Hon. Laura Alice Boyd (1934–1999), daughter of the 6th [[Baron Kilmarnock]]. They had three children, including noted biologist [[Anthony A. Hyman]]. Hyman died in 2011.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=99tHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2547|page=2547|title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|year=2019|isbn=9781999767051 |last1=Morris |first1=Susan |publisher=eBook Partnership }}</ref>


==Selected publications==
==Selected publications==
Hyman published the following books:
Hyman published the following books:<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthony-Hyman/e/B001HPBHWM | title=Anthony Hyman | work=[[Amazon.co.uk]] | publisher=[[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] | accessdate=9 August 2021 }}</ref>


* {{cite book| last1=Hyman | first1=Anthony | date=1973 | title=The Computer in Design | publisher=[[Littlehampton Book Services]] | isbn=978-0289702680 }}
* {{cite book| last1=Hyman | first1=Anthony | date=1973 | title=The Computer in Design | publisher=[[Littlehampton Book Services]] | isbn=978-0289702680 }}<ref>{{cite journal | last = Lang | first = C. A. | date = January 1974 | doi = 10.1093/comjnl/17.1.63 | issue = 1 | journal = The Computer Journal | pages = 63 | title = Review of ''The Computer in Design'' | volume = 17| doi-access = free }}</ref>
* {{cite book| last1=Hyman | first1=Anthony | author-mask=2 | date=1978 | title=Computing: A Dictionary of Terms, Concepts and Ideas | publisher=[[Arrow Books]] | isbn=0099123207 }}<!--978-0099123200-->
* {{cite book| last1=Hyman | first1=Anthony | author-mask=2 | date=1978 | title=Computing: A Dictionary of Terms, Concepts and Ideas | publisher=[[Arrow Books]] | isbn=0099123207 }}<!--978-0099123200-->
* {{cite book| last1=Hyman | first1=Anthony | author-mask=2 | date=1980 | title=The Coming of the Chip | publisher=[[New English Library]] | isbn=978-0450049286 }}
* {{cite book| last1=Hyman | first1=Anthony | author-mask=2 | date=1980 | title=The Coming of the Chip | publisher=[[New English Library]] | isbn=978-0450049286 }}
* {{cite book| editor-last1=Hyman | editor-first1=Anthony | author-mask=2 | date=1989 | title=Science and Reform: Selected works of Charles Babbage | publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] | isbn=978-0521343114 }}
* {{cite book| editor-last1=Hyman | editor-first1=Anthony | author-mask=2 | date=1989 | title=Science and Reform: Selected works of Charles Babbage | publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] | isbn=978-0521343114 }}<ref>Reviews of ''Science and Reform'':
*{{Cite magazine |last=Anderson |first=Antony |date=1989-10-07 |title=Messing around on the river |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12416853-900-messing-around-on-the-river-review-of-science-and-reform-selected-works-of-charles-babbage-edited-by-anthony-hyman/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |magazine=New Scientist |language=en-US}}
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* {{cite book| last1=Hyman | first1=Anthony | date=1992 | title=Charles Babbage, Pioneer of the Computer | publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] | isbn=978-0-691-08303-2 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/charlesbabbagepi0000hyma }}
*{{cite journal|last1=Campbell-Kelly|first1= Martin|last2=Williams|first2= Michael R.|title=none|journal=Annals of Science|date=July 1990|volume= 47|issue=4|pages=411–412|doi=10.1080/00033799000200331}}
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* {{cite book| last1=Hyman | first1=Anthony | author-mask=2 | date=2007 | title=The Selfseeker | publisher=Teignvalley Press | isbn=978-0955538704 }}
*{{cite journal|first=I.|last=Grattan-Guinness|title=none|journal=zbMATH|zbl=0698.01022}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Rosmaita |first=Brian J. |date=1990 |title=none |journal=Albion |language=en |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=694–695 |doi=10.2307/4051416 |issn=0095-1390|jstor=4051416}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Swade |first=Doron |date=1991 |title=The world reduced to number |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/233232 |journal=Isis |volume=82 |issue=3 |pages=532–536 |doi=10.1086/355843 |issn=0021-1753|jstor=233232|s2cid=147099592 }}
*{{cite journal|last=Swinbank|first=Peter|journal=History|title=none|volume=76|issue=248 |date=October 1991|pages= 522–523 |jstor=24421496}}
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* {{cite book |last1=Hyman |first1=Anthony |date=1992 |title=Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=978-0-691-08303-2 |orig-date=1982 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/charlesbabbagepi0000hyma}}<ref>Reviews of ''[[Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer]]'':
*{{Cite journal |last=Aspray |first=William |date=1982-11-12 |title=A scientist and reformer |journal=Science |language=en |volume=218 |issue=4573 |pages=672–673 |doi=10.1126/science.218.4573.672 |issn=0036-8075|jstor=1688618|pmid=17791583 }}
*{{cite journal|last=Berg|first=Maxine|doi=10.1080/00076798300000023|title=none|journal=Business History|date=1983 |volume=25|issue=2|pages=200–201}}
*{{cite journal|last=Burton|first=Hilary|journal=Library Journal|title=none|volume=107|issue=11|page=1091|date=June 1982}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Hartley |first=M. G. |date=July 1983 |title=none |journal=The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education |language=en |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=285–286 |doi=10.1177/002072098302000329 |s2cid=115638406 |issn=0020-7209}}
*{{cite journal | first= I. D. |last=Hill|journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A |title=none|volume= 148|issue= 2|year=1985|page= 171|jstor=2981961|doi=10.2307/2981961}}
*{{cite journal | last = Mason | first = Michael | title = Tons of sums | journal = London Review of Books | url = https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v04/n17/michael-mason/tons-of-sums | volume = 4 | issue = 17 | date = 16 September 1982}}
*{{Cite journal |last=O'Donnell |first=John T. |date=August 1985 |title=none |journal=The American Mathematical Monthly |language=en |volume=92 |issue=7 |pages=522–525 |doi=10.1080/00029890.1985.11971672 |issn=0002-9890|jstor=2322530}}
*{{cite journal | first = Joan L. |last =Richards|journal=Isis|title=none|volume= 74|issue= 2 |date=June 1983|page= 292|jstor=233151|doi=10.1086/353292}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Smillie |first=K. W. |date=July 1983 |title=none |journal=SIAM Review |language=en |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=422–423 |doi=10.1137/1025100 |issn=0036-1445|jstor=2029408}}
*{{cite journal|first =Garry J.|last=Tee|title=none|journal=Mathematical Reviews|year=1984|mr=0693093}}
*{{cite journal | first = Henry S.|last= Tropp|journal=Technology and Culture|title=none|volume= 25|issue= 3 |date=July 1984|pages= 651–653 |jstor=3104217|doi=10.2307/3104217}}
*{{cite journal |author=J. W. W.|journal=Mathematics of Computation|title=none|volume=46|issue=174|date=April 1986|page= 759|jstor=2008013|doi=10.2307/2008013}}
</ref>
*{{cite book|title=Gentle Bridges: Architecture, Art and Science|editor1-first=R. Anthony|editor1-last=Hyman|editor2-first=Gerhard|editor2-last=Mack|editor3-first=Juhani|editor3-last=Pallasmaa|publisher=Birkhäuser|year=2002|isbn=9783764367503}}
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* {{cite book| last1=Hyman | first1=Anthony | date=2007 | title=The Selfseeker | publisher=Teignvalley Press | isbn=978-0955538704 }}


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 05:22, 6 April 2024

For other people called Anthony Hyman, see Anthony Hyman (disambiguation).
R. Anthony Hyman
Born1928
London, England
Died2011
OccupationHistorian of computing
EducationDartington Hall School
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Years active1973–2007
Employer(s)English Electric LEO
University of Oxford
Notable worksCharles Babbage, Pioneer of the Computer (1982).
SpouseLaura Alice Boyd (1934–1999), daughter of the 6th Baron Kilmarnock
Children3, including the biologist Anthony A. Hyman

Robert Anthony Hyman (1928–2011) was a British historian of computing.

Anthony Hyman wrote especially on the early Victorian computer pioneer, Charles Babbage (1791–1871). He liaised with the London Science Museum, the Royal Society, the Crawford Library, the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, the Cambridge University Library, the Edinburgh Royal Observatory for source material.[1]

Hyman was born in 1928 in London. He studied at Dartington Hall and then Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked on transistors in the early 1950s, became a polymer scientist, and then worked as a computer researcher for English Electric LEO, before becoming "a free-lance computer consultant and historian of science", and the Alastair Horne Modern History Fellow at the University of Oxford.[2] In 1962, Hyman married Hon. Laura Alice Boyd (1934–1999), daughter of the 6th Baron Kilmarnock. They had three children, including noted biologist Anthony A. Hyman. Hyman died in 2011.[3]

Selected publications[edit]

Hyman published the following books:

  • Hyman, Anthony (1973). The Computer in Design. Littlehampton Book Services. ISBN 978-0289702680.[4]
  • —— (1978). Computing: A Dictionary of Terms, Concepts and Ideas. Arrow Books. ISBN 0099123207.
  • —— (1980). The Coming of the Chip. New English Library. ISBN 978-0450049286.
  • Hyman, Anthony, ed. (1989). Science and Reform: Selected works of Charles Babbage. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521343114.[5]
  • Hyman, Anthony (1992) [1982]. Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08303-2.[6]
  • Hyman, R. Anthony; Mack, Gerhard; Pallasmaa, Juhani, eds. (2002). Gentle Bridges: Architecture, Art and Science. Birkhäuser. ISBN 9783764367503.
  • Hyman, Anthony (2007). The Selfseeker. Teignvalley Press. ISBN 978-0955538704.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hyman, Anthony, ed. (2007). Science and Reform: Selected works of Charles Babbage. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521036764.
  2. ^ Harman, Peter Michael; Mitton, Simon, eds. (2002). Cambridge Scientific Minds. Cambridge University Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780521786126.
  3. ^ Morris, Susan (2019). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. eBook Partnership. p. 2547. ISBN 9781999767051.
  4. ^ Lang, C. A. (January 1974). "Review of The Computer in Design". The Computer Journal. 17 (1): 63. doi:10.1093/comjnl/17.1.63.
  5. ^ Reviews of Science and Reform:
  6. ^ Reviews of Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer:
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