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Babbage and Lovelace

The central figure of 19th-century computing was Charles Babbage (1791-1871)...

In 1734 Bishop Berkeley published a witty and effective attack...

Although many people contributed to the study of infinity over...

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was one of the greatest mathematicians...

Many people have heard of the Möbius band, a one-sided...

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was one of the most important...

Joseph Fourier was interested in the mathematical study of the...

In his Principia Isaac Newton used his law of universal...

In 1905, his 'year of wonders', Einstein published four papers...

Alan Turing (1912-1954) and John von Neumann (1903-1957) had an...