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.
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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 |
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Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0125032 |
Sonar, Thomas
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Cham, : Birkhäuser, 2018 | ||
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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 |
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
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Cham, : Birkhäuser, 2018 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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