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Documentary in which Dr Hannah Fry tells the story of Ada Lovelace’s remarkable life: a 19th-century countess whose work helped give rise to the modern era of computing. [60 minutes]
Judith Grabiner describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and...
The central figure of 19th-century computing was Charles Babbage (1791-1871), who may be said to have pioneered the modern computer age with his ‘difference engines’ and his ‘analytical engine’,...
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