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babbage sketch based on photograph npg ax by henri claudet, s. born december england died october england charles babbage (december , – october , ) was an english mathematician, philosopher , mechanical engineer, and (proto-) computer scientist, who originated the idea of a programmable computer . parts
might have done." the second was an oxford tutor from whom babbage learned enough of the classics to be accepted to cambridge. babbage arrived at trinity college , cambridge, in october . he had read extensively in leibniz , lagrange , simpson, and lacroix, and was seriously disappointed in the mathematical...
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