Charles Babbage

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Charles Babbage

• 1791-1871
• Father of the modern computer

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Early childhood

• Born in Totnes, Devonshire, England in 1791
• Was a very sickly child
• Started school at age 10
• He was a very curious child
• Science and math were favorite subject

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How and where educated

• Was educated at Trinity College in Cambridge,
  England.
• Graduated Trinity at age 23 in England
• Received advanced degree in mathematics

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What He Achieved In Math

• He created the difference engine.
• At the age of thirty he received a advanced
  mathematics degree.
• His first model of the difference engine never
  generated a wrong answer
• Babbage worked out the first speedometer.
• Never finished his second difference engine.
• First model could only do 6-8 digits.

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How we use his math today!

• Our small caculator is basically his difference
  engine
• We use his ideas to make our modern computer

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Credits

• Our group

• Early Childhood and Education by Kevin
• Math Achievements, bibliography, and
  accomplishments byJoshua
• Introduction and Credits by Mandi

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Bibliography

• INTERNETwww.mathematics
• BOOKScomputer pioneers pgs 11-15