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Autobiography of charles babbage.
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who developed the concept of a programmable computer.
“The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.”
– Charles Babbage, (1864) Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, ch.
8 of the Analytical Engine
Babbage was born in London, England in 1791. As a child, he had a variety of tutors and schools and developed a love of mathematics.
Biography of charles babbage summary of beowulf
In 1810, he was accepted to Trinity College, Cambridge. He later transferred to Peterhouse, Cambridge where he received an honorary degree in mathematics.
At Cambridge, he was dissappointed by the quality of the maths teaching, but joined the Analytical Society – a group of like minded students, interested in exploring issues of mathematics.
It was as a student that he conceived of an idea to try and do calculations with a machine. It was after looking at a table for logarithms, (many o