Babbage's Calculating Engines: Being a Collection of Papers Relating to Them; Their History and Construction
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The famous and prolific nineteenth-century mathematician, engineer and inventor Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was an early pioneer of computing. He planned several calculating machines, but none was built in his lifetime. On his death his youngest son, Henry P. Babbage, was charged with the task of completing an unfinished volume of papers on the machines, which was finally published in 1889 and is reissued here. The papers, by a variety of authors,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1108000967
ISBN13:9781108000963
Release Date:May 2010
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:388 Pages
Weight:2.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 8.3" x 11.7"
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