Session 5 :: 19th century

Repetitio :: Between Rennaissance and Age of Reason Questio :: What is a "representation" ? Exercitio I:: Binary counting. Presentatio I :: Baroque calculating mach...

What is a representation ?

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...

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...

Somebody willing to make a video of the Jacquard Loom at the TM next week ?

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 Numbers...

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...

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...

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...

united algebra and logic replaced propositional form of Aristotle's logic to equation-like formulae and introduced "laws" which can solve them logical formulae ...