Charles Babbage - History Theory of Computation

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Charles Babbage Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791, in Marylebone, London, England. He performed many significant accomplishments before he passed away in October 18, 1871. Many people consider Charles Babbage to be the “Father of Computing” due to his remarkable inventions such as his Difference Engine (1821), which printed tables of polynomials, and his Analytical Engine (1856), which was intended as a general symbol manipulator, and had some of the characteristics of today’s computers. Both the Difference and Analytical Engines were the earliest direct prototypes of modern computers (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Although not much is really known about his childhood, some brief facts are known. He had a large amount of brothers and sisters, although many of them died young. Babbage never really played with his toys; instead, he would dissect them. When Babbage grew up he attended many new schools. He ended up at Forty Hill School, where he was well known for mischief, but for some reason or another Babbage still studied. He did several bad things like carve his name in his desks, violate his curfew, and insult the minister's speeches. He still found time to wake up with a friend at three in the morning and study in the library until five-thirty A.M. Frederick Marryat, Babbage’s roommate and a future novelist, joined his morning study group. Marryat began to attend regularly and brought more and more friends. And the one-time study group then became a wild party that was eventually broken up by the Head Master. After both Marryat and Babbage had become famous, they loved to tell how they were deemed the two students most likely never to amount to anything (Encyclopedia of World Biography). In 1810, when Babbage turned nineteen years old; he enrolled Trinity College at Cambridge University. Where Babbage studied grammar and literature, but he was
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