Tons of Sums
Michael Mason, 16 September 1982
Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer
by Anthony Hyman.
Oxford, 287 pp., £12.50, July 1982,9780198581703 Show More
by Anthony Hyman.
Oxford, 287 pp., £12.50, July 1982,
“... economist, inventor, reformer of scientific institutions, craftsman, even salon host. But Anthony Hyman does not seek to displace the computers from centre-stage in Babbage’s life, and this seems correct. They provide the most sustained theme in his variegated career, and may be seen as a point of convergence for most of the tendencies of his ... ”