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Author: J. M. Dubbey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-02-12
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521524766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes Babbage's work on the design and implementation of the difference and analytical engines.
Author: Charles Babbage
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 1040236863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer". His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader.
Author: Christopher Hollings
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781851244881
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Ada, Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, is sometimes referred to as the world's first computer programmer. But how did a young woman in the nineteenth century without a formal education become a pioneer of computer science? Drawing on previously unpublished archival material, including a remarkable correspondence course with eminent mathematician Augustus De Morgan, this book explores Ada Lovelace's development from her precocious childhood into a gifted, perceptive and knowledgeable mathematician who, alongside Mary Somerville, Michael Faraday and Charles Dickens, became part of Victorian London's social and scientific elite. Featuring images of the 'first programme' together with mathematical models and contemporary illustrations, the authors show how, despite her relatively short life and with astonishing prescience, Ada Lovelace explored key mathematical questions to understand the principles behind modern computing."--Page 4 de la couverture.
Author: Charles Babbage
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-10-17
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0486320529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Babbage (1792–1871) articulated the principles behind modern computing machines. This compilation of his writings, plus those of several of his contemporaries, illuminates the early history of the calculator.
Author: Bruce Collier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-09-28
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 019514287X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the life and work of the man whose nineteenth century inventions led to the development of the computer.
Author: Doron Swade
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drawing on previously unused archival material, The Difference Engine is a tale of both Babbage's nineteenth-century quest to build a calculating engine and its twentieth-century sequel. For in 1991, Babbage's vision was finally realized, at least in part, by the completion at the Science Museum in London of the first full-sized Babbage engine, finished in time for the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth. The two quests are mutually illuminating and are recounted here by the then Curator of Computing, Doron Swade - one of the main protagonists of the successful resumption of Babbage's extraordinary work."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Charles Babbage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-05-18
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521343114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Babbage was a key figure of a great era of British history. Best remembered for his pioneering Difference and Analytical Engines, forerunners of the modern computer, Babbage was also an active reformer of science and society.
Author: Charles Babbage
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Published: 1832
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: B. Randell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 3642961452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy interest in the history of digital computers became an active one when I had the fortune to come across the almost entirely forgotten work of PERCY LUDGATE, who designed a mechanical program-controlled computer in Ireland in the early I ':ICC's. I undertook an investigation of his life and work, during which I began to realise that a large number of early developments, which we can now see as culminating in the modern digital computer, had been most undeservedly forgotten. Hopefully, historians of science, some of whom are now taking up the subject of the development of the computer and accumulating valuable data, particularly about the more recent events from the people concerned, will before too long provide us with comprehensive analytical accounts of the invention of the computer. The present book merely aims to bring together some of the more important and interesting written source material for such a history of computers. (Where necessary, papers have been translated into English, but every attempt has been made to retain the flavour of the original, and to avoid possibly misleading use of modern computing terminology.
Author: Zoë Tucker
Publisher: NorthSouth Books
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 0735843171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is Ada. Although she might look like an ordinary little girl, she’s about to change the world. Augusta Ada Byron, better known as Ada Lovelace, is an inquisitive child. Like her clever mother, she loves solving problems—big problems, little problems, and tricky, complicated problems. Ada invents crazy contraptions and reads all the books in the library of her father, the poet Lord Byron; but most of all she loves to solve mathematical problems. Together with her teacher, the mathematician Charles Babbage, Ada invents the world’s first computer program. Her achievements made her a pioneer for women in the sciences. Zoë Tucker’s words capture the adventurous life of Ada succinctly, and debut picture book illustrator Rachel Katstaller’s art infuses Victorian London with humor. "An impressively balanced mix of engaging description and important facts with a quick explanation of the gender politics of the time and information about Ada's legacy...Inspiring, feminist, and informative in equal parts." –Kirkus Reviews
