It began with Babbage : the genesis of computer science /
Genesis of computer science, 1819-1969
Subrata Dasgupta.
- Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue -- Leibniz's theme, Babbage's dream -- Weaving algebraic patterns -- Missing links -- Entscheidungsproblem : what's in a word? -- Towards a holy grail -- Intermezzo -- A tangled web of inventions -- A paradigm is born -- A liminal artifact of an uncommon nature -- Glimpses of a scientific style -- I compute, therefore I am -- "The best way to design" -- Language games -- Going heuristic -- An explosion of subparadigms -- Aesthetica -- Epilogue.