31.12.2018
Order of the day
Repetitio :: Between Rennaissance and Age of Reason
Questio :: What is a "representation" ?
Exercitio I:: Binary counting.
Presentatio I :: Baroque calculating mach...
31.12.1379
Etymology of the word "represent"
represent (v.)
late 14c., "to bring to mind by description," also "to symbolize, serve as a sign or symbol of; serve as the type or embodiment of;" from Latin repraesen...
31.12.2018
Mariam-Webster dict. definition of "representation"
The description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way.
The depiction of someone or something in a work of art.
A picture, model, or other dep...
01.01.1801
Jacquard Loom (c. 1801)
Somebody willing to make a video of the Jacquard Loom at the TM next week ?
01.01.1822
Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871)
polymath, KH FRS, Victorian gentleman etc.
mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer
"father of the computer"
author of "difference engine...
01.01.1822
Difference engine
01.01.1843
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1812 - 1852)
daughter of Lord Byron
mother promoted Ada's interest in mathematics and logics, student od Augustus de Morgan
associate of Charles Babbage ("Enchantress of Numbers...
01.01.1843
From Ada's (1843)notes to Menabrea article
Note A, p. 694 :: Again, it [the Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those...
01.01.1843
From Ada's (1843)notes to Menabrea article
The distinctive characteristic of the Analytical Engine, and that which has rendered it possible to endow mechanism with such extensive faculties as bid fair to make this engine...
31.12.1853
George Boole (1815 - 1864)
another Victorian gentleman
at 17 years of age "a thought struck him suddenly, which became the foundation of all his future discoveries"
author of "Laws of Thou...
31.12.1853
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities
united algebra and logic
replaced propositional form of Aristotle's logic to equation-like formulae and introduced "laws" which can solve them
logical formulae ...
31.12.1853