23 October 1871: Babbage's calculating machines are seen as the forerunners of modern programmable computers The death is announced of Mr Charles Babbage, who has long held high rank among the mathematicians of the day. He was born on 26 December 1792, and having been privately educated, proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge where he took his BA degree in 1814; but, curiously enough, his name does not appear in the mathematical tripos. In the course of his mathematical studies he found fault w...
The death of Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor - archive, 23 October 1871
The Guardian - 22 Oct 2021 09:30
23 October 1871: Babbage's calculating machines are seen as the forerunners of modern programmable computers The death is announced of Mr Charles Babbage, who has long held high rank among the mathematicians of the day. He was born on 26 December 1792, and having been privately educated, proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge where he took his BA degree in 1814; but, curiously enough, his name does not appear in the mathematical tripos. In the course of his mathematical studies he found fault w...
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