Repetitio :: Between Rennaissance and Age of Reason Questio :: What is a "representation" ? Exercitio I:: Binary counting. Presentatio I :: Baroque calculating
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
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 de
polymath, KH FRS, Victorian gentleman etc. mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer "father of the computer" author of "difference engine"
daughter of Lord Byron mother promoted Ada's interest in mathematics and logics, student od Augustus de Morgan associate of Charles Babbage ("Enchantress of Nu
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 e
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
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 Th
united algebra and logic replaced propositional form of Aristotle's logic to equation-like formulae and introduced "laws" which can solve them logical formulae