
The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 3
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 1989
Book
Hardback
266 pages
978-1-138-76372-2 (ISBN)
Description
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer". His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-76372-2 (9781138763722)
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Persons
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Content
Volume 3. The Analytical Engine and Mechanical Notation SECTION B The Analytical Engine I Statement addressed to the Duke of Wellington respecting the calculating engine (1834) II Une lettre a M. Quetelet de M. Ch. Babbage relativement a la machine a calculer (1835) III A letter to M. Quetelet from Charles Babbage respecting the calculating machine, translation IV On the mathematical powers of the calculating engine (1837) V Notions sur la machine analytique de M. Charles Babbage, by L. F. Menabrea (1842) VI Addition to the Memoir of M. Menabrea on the Analytical Engine (1843) VII Sketch of the Analytical Engine, by A. A. Lovelace (1843) VIII Letter to the editor of Cosmos, by L. F. Menabrea (1855) IX Letter to the editor of Cosmos, by L. F. Menabrea, translation X Report of the committee . . . appointed to consider the advisability and to estimate the expense of con[1]structing Mr Babbage's analytical machine, and of printing tables by its means, by C. W. Merrifield (1879) XI On the mechanical arrangement of the Analytical Engine, by H. P. Babbage (1889) SECTION C Analytical Notation I On a method of expressing by signs the action of machinery (1826) II Laws of mechanical notation (1851) III Note sur la machine Suedoise de MM. Scheutz pour calculer les tables mathematiques par la methode des differences, et en imprimer les resultats sur des planches stereotypes (1855) IV Note on the Swedish machine of Messrs Scheutz tocalculate mathematical tables by the method of differences, and to print the results thereof on stereotype plates, translation