On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings by Charles Babbage and Other.
Edited and with an Introduction By Philip Morrison and Emily Morrison
Crackpot to his contemporaries, genius to modern scientists, Charles Babbage (1792-1871) was the true discoverer of the principles on which all modern computing machines are based; but his time received his work with scorn, and his name has been virtually forgotten until recently. This original Dover publication is now the only complete story available of the life and work of this amazing mathematician-philosopher-inventor.
Part I consists of selections from Babbage's long-out-of-print autobiography, "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher." In his own unrestrained and "somewhat peculiar" way (Encyclopaedia Britannica), Babbage tells the lively story of his youthful escapades, his warm friendships (and embittered enmities) with such outstanding European figures as Laplace, Biot, Humbolt, and Sir Humphry Davy, and the dominating obsession of his life -the creation of a machine that would forever remove the mistakes and wasted effort inevitable in any extensive arithmetical calculations.
His dream has only now come true, but to convince yourself that Babbage was indeed far ahead of his time, turn to the articles by the inventor and by his contemporaries that explain the principles and operation of his brilliant -but never completed- calculating machines.
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Autor: Babbage, Charles
Idioma: English
Editorial: Dover (New York)
1961
13,50x21,50 cm.
400 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica. Firma. Buen estado.























