Mathematician:Charles Babbage

Mathematician
English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer.

Originated, together with, the concept of a programmable computer.

Founder of both the and the.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 26 December 1791 in London, England
 * Died: 18 October 1871 in London, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Babbage's Difference Engine
 * Babbage's Analytical Engine


 * Babbage's Congruence
 * Charles Babbage's Conjecture

Publications



 * 1826: A Comparative View of the Various Institutions for the Assurance of Lives
 * 1830: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes
 * 1835: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (4th ed.)
 * 1837: The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, a Fragment
 * 1841: Table of the Logarithms of the Natural Numbers from $1$ to $108000$
 * 1851: The Exposition of 1851
 * 1864: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Notable Quotes

 * On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.