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The Cogwheel Brain Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

Paperback • 2000 • English

The Cogwheel Brain Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

By Doron Swade

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About the book

In 1821, 30-year-old inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage was poring over a set of printed mathematical tables with his friend, the astronomer John Herschel. Finding error after error in the manually evaluated results, Babbage made an exclamation, the consequences of which would not only dominate the remaining 50 years of his life, but also lay the foundations for the modern computer industry: 'I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!' A few days later, he set down a pl...Show more

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ISBN

9780316648479

Publisher

Little, Brown

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

The Cogwheel Brain Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

Format

Paperback

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