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An Irascible Genius and His Difference Engine Doron Swade's The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer tells the story of Babbage's lifelong dedication to the idea of the computer, from the moment in 1821 when he exclaimed that mathematics ought to be powered by steam... |
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The Colors of an Equation's Roots A few artists have taken advantage of the techniques used to visualize mathematics to create aesthetically pleasing patterns and intriguing artworks. |
Scientific American
February 19, 2006 |
Why is Turing's Halting Problem Unsolvable? A key step in showing that incompleteness is natural and pervasive was taken by Alan M. Turing in 1936, when he demonstrated that there can be no general procedure to decide if a self-contained computer program will eventually halt. |
InternetNews
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Technical Analysis: S&P Leaves Market Vulnerable The S&P's failure to take out its all-time high could leave the market vulnerable to a correction. |
IEEE Spectrum
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Slideshow: Victorian Hacking The author, a professor of the history of engineering at MIT, traveled to England to lead a tour of Victorian technology -- a journey into the fantastical world of Watt, Babbage, Brunel, and other 19th-century hackers |
Technology Research News
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A Short History of the Computer The first general purpose electronic computer appeared more than half a century ago. |
