Babbage's two lives

DOI10.1017/S000708741300037XzbMath1291.01019MaRDI QIDQ5416787

Menachem Fisch

Publication date: 15 May 2014

Published in: The British Journal for the History of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

HerschelLacroixBabbagecontinental analysishistory of functional calculusMS13

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

Cites Work

• The analytical society (1812-1813): Precursor of the renewal of Cambridge mathematics
• The calculus of operations and the rise of abstract algebra
• Herschel, Peacock, Babbage and the development of the Cambridge curriculum
• Charles Babbage as an algorithmic thinker

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