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Charles Babbage (26 December – 18 October ) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who developed the concept of a programmable computer.
“The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.”
&#; Charles Babbage, () Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, ch.
8 of the Analytical Engine
Babbage was born in London, England in As a child, he had a variety of tutors and schools and developed a love of mathematics. In , he was accepted to Trinity College, Cambridge.
Young charles babbage biography summary
He later transferred to Peterhouse, Cambridge where he received an honorary degree in mathematics.
At Cambridge, he was dissappointed by the quality of the maths teaching, but joined the Analytical Society &#; a group of like minded students, interested in exploring issues of mathematics.
It was as a student that he conceived of an idea to try and do calculations with a machine. It was after looking at a table for logarithms, (many of which were wrong) that he tho