01253nam a2200217Ia 4500 CTU_228785 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 510.924 H996 Hyman, Anthony Charles Babbage, pioneer of the computer Anthony Hyman Oxford Oxford University Press 1984 This book discusses the career of Charles Babbage (1791-1871), British advocate of the systematic use of science in industry and creator of machines that were precursors of the modern computer. Babbage used his immense personal charm and vitality in an attempt to change the thinking of contemporary industrialists who had little use for the higher reaches of science. Shifting his own energies from pure mathematics, he planned engines that would "calculate by steam": the Difference Engines, designed to compute tables according to the method of finite differences, and the more complex Analytical Engines, forerunners of the modern computer. Nhà toán học,Mathematicians Tiểu sử,Biography Nước Anh,Great Britain dqhieu Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ