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Charles Babbage

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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage in 1860
Born26 December 1791(1791-12-26)
Lunnon, Ingland
Dee'd18 October 1871(1871-10-18) (aged 79)
Marylebone, Lunnon, Ingland
NaitionalityInglis
Alma materPeterhouse, Cambridge
Kent forMathematics, computin
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, ingineerin, poleetical economy, computer science
InstitutionsTrinity College, Cambridge
InfluencesRobert Woodhouse, Gaspard Monge, John Herschel
InfluencedKarl Marx, John Stuart Mill
Signatur

Charles Babbage, FRS (/ˈbæbɪ/; 26 December 1791 –18 October 1871) wis an Inglis polymath.[1]

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  1. Terence Whalen (1999). Edgar Allan Poe and the masses: the political economy of literature in antebellum America. Princeton University Press. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-691-00199-9. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2013.