Today's computer is the culmination of thousands of years of human mathematical thought. This section describes that process.
1. The Univac Computer.
2. A contemporary model, built after Charles Babbage's (English mathematician and philosopher, 1791-1871) nineteenth-century blueprints for the Difference Engine. Numbers were stored as the positions of the gears.
2. A contemporary model, built after Charles Babbage's (English mathematician and philosopher, 1791-1871) nineteenth-century blueprints for the Difference Engine. Numbers were stored as the positions of the gears.
