Essay1843
Notes on the Analytical Engine
Ada Lovelace
Describes a method for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers, now read as the first published algorithm written for a machine that did not yet exist.
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Babbage & Lovelace
A topic within History of Computing, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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Book1864
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Charles Babbage
Babbage's own account of designing the Difference and Analytical Engines, and his bitterness at the British government's refusal to fund them to completion.
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