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(Paperback)
By: Doron Swade
ISBN: 9780349112398
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In 1821 Charles Babbage was poring over a set of printed mathematical tables with his friend, the astronomer John Herschel. He set down a plan to build a machine that would carry out complex mathematical calculations without human intervention and without human errors. This is the story of his lifelong bid to construct such a machine.
