Mathematics and mechanical computation

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-93779-3_5MaRDI QIDQ4972858zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Doron D. Swade

Publication date 27 November 2019

Published in Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93779-3_5

zbMATH Keywords

analytical enginehistory of computingmechanical computationmechanical notation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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