Charles Babbage | Academic Influence

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Mathematics

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Philosophy

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Logic

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Why Is Charles Babbage Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Babbage was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom. Babbage had a broad range of interests in addition to his work on computers covered in his book Economy of Manufactures and Machinery. His varied work in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his century.

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Charles Babbage's Published Works

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Published Papers

Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (379)
XXIII. An essay towards the calculus of functions (94)
XI. An essay towards the calculus of functions. Part II (38)
Reflections on the decline of science in England (33)
XVIII. On a method of expressing by signs the action of machinery (27)
Observations on the Temple of Serapis, at Pozzuoli, near Naples, with remarks on certain causes which may produce Geological Cycles of great extent (1847) (24)
Analysis of the Statistics of the Clearing House During the Year 1839 (1856) (21)
Observations on the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy (1868) (20)
XXI. Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation (16)
Babbage's Calculating Engines: Observations on the Application of Machinery to the Computation of Mathematical Tables (1825) (9)
XIV. Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and other branches of analysis (8)
Observations on the discovery in various localities of the remains of human art mixed with the bones of extinct races of animals (6)
XXX. On electrical and magnetic rotations (4)
Notice respecting some errors common to many Tables of Logarithms (4)
X. An Examination of some Questions connected with Games of Chance (3)
On the Action of Ocean-currents in the Formation of the Strata of the Earth (1856) (2)
An analysis of the statistics of the clearing house during the year 1839 : with an appendix on the London and New York clearing houses, and on the London railway clearing house (1)
On a new Zenith Micrometer (1)
Abstract of a paper entitled Observations on the temple of serapis, at Pozzuoli, with remarks on certain causes which may produce geological Cycles of great Extent (1)
XXIV. On the Application of Analysis to the Discovery of Local Theorems and Porisms (1)
XVIII. On some new methods of investigating the sums of several classes of infinite series (1)
[Report of the Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Society] (0)
On Electrical and Magnetic Rotations. [Abstract] (0)
Table of the logarithms (0)
Note respecting the Pink Projections from the Sun's Disc observed during the Total Solar Eclipse observed in 1851 (1852) (0)
The Effect of Autonomous Algorithms on Networking (0)
Barometrical Observations, made at the Fall of the Staubbach, by Sir John Herschel, Bart., and C. Babbage, Esq. (0)
On currency, on a new system of manufacturing, and on the effect of machinery on human labour (0)
Chapter 1 Introducing ... the Universal Computer (0)
III. Extract from a letter addressed by Chas. Babbage, Esq., F. R. S., to Dr. Bache, of Washington, May 10, 1852. Communicated by Mr. Babbage (0)
Notes on a letter addressed by the secretary of the Royal Society to the president (1830) (0)
On a Method of Expressing by Signs the Action of Machinery. [Abstract] (0)

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