- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 328 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- It began with Babbage (Online)
- Alternative Title
- It began with Babbage (Online)
- Genesis of computer science, 1819-1969
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-310) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Leibniz's theme, Babbage's dream -- Weaving algebraic patterns -- Missing links -- Entscheidungsproblem : what's in a word? -- Towards a holy grail -- Intermezzo -- A tangled web of inventions -- A paradigm is born -- A liminal artifact of an uncommon nature -- Glimpses of a scientific style -- I compute, therefore I am -- "The best way to design" -- Language games -- Going heuristic -- An explosion of subparadigms -- Aesthetica -- Epilogue.
- LCCN
- 2013023202
- OCLC
- ssj0001080560
- Author
Dasgupta, Subrata.
- Title
It began with Babbage [electronic resource] : the genesis of computer science / Subrata Dasgupta.
- Imprint
Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-310) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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