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Reckoning with Matter : Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage / / Matthew L. Jones
Reckoning with Matter : Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage / / Matthew L. Jones
Autore Jones Matthew L.
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (340 pages)
Disciplina 510.284
Soggetto topico Calculators - History
Computers - History
Technology - History
Soggetto non controllato Blaise Pascal
Charles Babbage
Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
artisanal knowledge
calculating machines
eighteenth century
intellectual property
nineteenth century
seventeenth century
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation -- 2. Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood -- 3. Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property -- 4. Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment -- 5. Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent -- 6. Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910151642203321
Jones Matthew L.  
Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016]
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The History of the Priority Di∫pute between Newton and Leibniz : Mathematics in History and Culture / Thomas Sonar ; with an Epilogue by Eberhard Knobloch
The History of the Priority Di∫pute between Newton and Leibniz : Mathematics in History and Culture / Thomas Sonar ; with an Epilogue by Eberhard Knobloch
Autore Sonar, Thomas
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham, : Birkhäuser, 2018
Descrizione fisica xxvii, 549 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Soggetto topico 01Axx - History of mathematics and mathematicians [MSC 2020]
26-XX - Real functions [MSC 2020]
Soggetto non controllato Calculus controversy
Culture
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
History of mathematics
Isaac Newton
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Titolo uniforme
Record Nr. UNICAMPANIA-VAN0125032
Sonar, Thomas  
Cham, : Birkhäuser, 2018
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli
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The History of the Priority Di∫pute between Newton and Leibniz : Mathematics in History and Culture / Thomas Sonar ; with an Epilogue by Eberhard Knobloch
The History of the Priority Di∫pute between Newton and Leibniz : Mathematics in History and Culture / Thomas Sonar ; with an Epilogue by Eberhard Knobloch
Autore Sonar, Thomas
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham, : Birkhäuser, 2018
Descrizione fisica xxvii, 549 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Soggetto topico 01Axx - History of mathematics and mathematicians [MSC 2020]
26-XX - Real functions [MSC 2020]
Soggetto non controllato Calculus controversy
Culture
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
History of mathematics
Isaac Newton
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Titolo uniforme
Record Nr. UNICAMPANIA-VAN00125032
Sonar, Thomas  
Cham, : Birkhäuser, 2018
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui