The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer by Doron Swade

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

Doron Swade

352 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)

nonfiction biography computer science history informative slow-paced
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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 exclam...

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