The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1

1. Auflage 1989
ISBN: 978-1-138-76368-5
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1100 g

A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer". His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Babbage, Charles

Campbell-Kelly, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1 Mathematical Papers General introduction Bibliography Editorial note Acknowledgements On the calculation and printing of mathematical tables by machinery; the inventor and his treatment, by Judex Juris, pseud. (1861) MATHEMATICAL PAPERS I Preface to Memoirs of the Analytical Society, with J. F. W. Herschel (1813) II On continued products (1813) III An essay towards the calculus of functions (1815) IV An essay towards the calculus of functions, part II (1816) V Demonstrations of some of Dr Matthew Stewart’s general theorems; to which is added, an account of some new properties of the circle (1816) VI Extracts from An elementary treatise on the differential and integral calculus, by S. F. Lacroix, with J. F. W. Herschel and G. Peacock, translators (1816) VII Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and the other branches of analysis (1817) VIII Solutions of some problems by means of the calculus of functions (1817) IX An account of Euler’s method of solving a problem, relative to the move of the knight at the game of chess(1817) X Note respecting elimination (1817) XI On some new methods of investigating the sums of several classes of infinite series (1819) XII Demonstration of a theorem relating to prime numbers (1819) XIII Examples of the solutions of functional equations (1820) XIV An examination of some questions connected with games of chance (1821) XV Observations on the notation employed in the calculus of functions (1822) XVI On the application of analysis to the discovery of local theorems and porisms (1823) XVII In the influence of signs in mathematical reasoning (1827) XVIII Notation (1830) XIX Porisms (1830) XX Questions from the Mathematical Repository (1830)

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Babbage, Martin Campbell-Kelly