# Mathematician:Charles Babbage

## Mathematician

English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer.

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

English

## History

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

## Theorems and Definitions

Results named for Charles Babbage can be found here.

## 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.