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It began with Babbage: the genesis of computer science/
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Format: | Printed Book |
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New York:
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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Online Access: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZxNwAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=it+began+with+babbage&source=bl&ots=yTlDp1-rco&sig=Z6Kb1M0gHr5RuFcdMjkIsbCQfoA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihiavx_8PTAhXFp48KHU0uDFUQ6AEIRjAG#v=onepage&q=it%20began%20with%20babbage&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- 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.