Screen LibraryIt began with Babbage : the genesis of computer science /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-310) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199309412 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : |
| Index Number: | QA76 |
| CLC: | TP3-09 |
| Call Number: | TP3-09/D229 |
| 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. |