Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691083037 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 287 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Shifting his own energies from pure mathematics, he planned engines that would "calculate by steam": the Difference Engines, designed to compute tables according to the method of finite differences, and the more complex Analytical Engines, forerunners of the modern computer.Almost forgotten and then rediscovered in the middle of the twentieth century, the Analytical Engines are among the great intellectual achievements of humankind. This biography of their polymathic inventor gives a convincing account of his tragic p
Husband ordered it E. K. Anderson He's reading everything he can about Charles Babbage, to help broaden his knowledge as a docent at a local computer history museum in Silicon Valley. He couldn't put it down! Arrived in great shape. Thank you, third-party book seller, for having a copy of this book!. A Superb Read; Not What I Expected m c caldera I read this book last year (2000) after reading a book of Ada Lovelace's letters (mostly to Babbage). I had purchased my hardcover copy at the Computer Museum in Boston MA back in the late 80's or early 90's, but had not read it because it looked daunting and dry. Was I wrong! This book is very readable and utterly fascinating; in fact a page turner that I could hardly put down. I've been looking for a softcover (or even another hardcover) for . "The Computer was Invented well before Reticulated Electricit" according to A Customer. In the early 19th century, a moderately well-off and very well educated Englishman dreams up an elaborate calculating machine for doing log and trig tables. When he begins this project, the railroad and the telegraph do not yet exist. The machine tools and manufacturing methods of the day are not up to the task, so the Englishman pushes out the envelope. He more or less succeeds in building his machine, but the British government is not interes