Engines of logic: Mathematicians and the origin of the computer [Book Review]
Engines of logic: Mathematicians and the origin of the computer [Book Review]
K. Smillie
2003 · DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2003.1226665
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 0 Citations
TLDR
The author shows how work that began with the 17th-century polymath Gottfried Leibniz and continued through until the now well-known work of Alan Turing 300 years later led to the design and construction of the ENIAC and EDVAC computers in the US and the EDSAC and Pilot Ace in England.