Dasgupta, Subrata.

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.



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Computer science--History--19th century.
Computer science--History--20th century.


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