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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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