Origins of digital computing: Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, and Ada Lovelace

DOI10.1142/9789814374309_0002MaRDI QIDQ4907911zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Doron D. Swade

Publication date 26 February 2013

Published in A Computable Universe (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814374309_0002

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of computer science (68-03) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61) Turing machines and related notions (03D10) General topics in the theory of computing (68Q01)

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