Isbn: 9780316648479 - the cogwheel brain (18 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Condición: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condición: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:9780316648479.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Very good condition hard cover, with good condition jacket, some wear to cover and spine, internally clean and tidy and in a good readable condition.

Paperback. Condición: As New. There are books that explain how computers work, and there are books that explain why computers exist at all. The Cogwheel Brain belongs firmly to the second category. Long before silicon chips, touchscreens and the internet convinced us that technology was inevitable, there was Charles Babbage, a Victorian mathematician with an inconvenient habit of believing that machines could think through arithmetic using nothing more exotic than brass gears, cams and astonishing quantities of determination. Doron Swade tells the story of the man whose greatest invention was so far ahead of its time that it had to wait more than a century for everyone else to catch up. Swade is uniquely qualified to tell the tale, having led the project to construct a working version of Babbage?s Difference Engine from the original nineteenth-century designs, giving him an unusually practical appreciation of just how ambitious?and maddening?the whole enterprise really was.  This is history at its most delightfully mechanical. Government funding disappears, engineers argue, precision manufacturing proves infuriatingly difficult, politicians lose interest and deadlines drift gently into the distance. Anyone who has ever managed an IT project may find the experience oddly familiar, except that today?s software bugs have been replaced with cast iron, brass bearings and the occasional ton of Victorian engineering. It is oddly reassuring to discover that the phrase "the project has run into unexpected complications" predates Microsoft by quite some distance. The irony at the heart of the book is irresistible. Babbage dreamed of eliminating human error from mathematical tables by replacing unreliable people with reliable machinery. Two centuries later we use astonishingly powerful descendants of his ideas to argue with strangers online, forget our passwords and watch videos of cats falling off sofas. Progress, it seems, occasionally takes the scenic route. Swade writes with genuine affection for both the machines and the man behind them. Rather than presenting Babbage as a flawless prophet of the computer age, he reveals an eccentric, brilliant, frequently exasperating inventor whose vision was matched only by his ability to fall out with those expected to finance it. The result is a biography, a history of engineering, a meditation on invention and an unexpectedly human story about what happens when extraordinary ideas collide with ordinary bureaucracy. Our As New copy is in excellent condition, clean, crisp and ready to occupy a deserving place on the shelf of anyone fascinated by computing, mathematics, engineering or the strange history of ideas that almost changed the world a century too early. Whether you work in technology, enjoy biographies of remarkable minds, or simply like discovering that the first computer was conceived in an age when steam power was still considered cutting-edge, The Cogwheel Brain is a rewarding and surprisingly entertaining read. It reminds us that every smartphone owes a quiet debt to a Victorian gentleman surrounded by cogwheels, mathematical tables and an optimism that refused to accept the word "impossible." As sold by Crappy Old Books , where even the oldest ideas occasionally turn out to be decades ahead of schedule. …

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, x,342pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper slightly bumped and creased at spine ends. ISBN: 0316648477.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. Type: Book pp x, 342.

Original Boards. Condición: Very Good+. Very Good+ dust. First Edition. With plates. Light wear to spine, covers, corners & dustjacket.; Octavo; x, 342 pages.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 2000, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unead; no annotation or inscriptions; slight toning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Type: Book N.B. Crease to top edge of D/J. (SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY).

Hardcover. In 1821, 30-year-old inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage was poring over a set of printed mathematical tables with his friend, the astronomer John Herschel. Finding error after error in the manually evaluated results, Babbage made an exclamation, the consequences of which would not only dominate the remaining 50 years of his life, but also lay the foundations for the modern computer industry: 'I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!' A few days later, he set down a plan to build a machine that would carry out complex mathematical calculations without human intervention and, at least in theory, without human errors. The only technology to which he had access for solving the problem was the cogwheel escapement found inside clocks. Babbage saw that a machine constructed out of hundreds of escapements, cunningly and precisely linked, might be able to handle calculations mechanically. The story of his lifelong bid to construct such a machine is a triumph of human ingenuity, will and imagination. These are USED books. Please only purchase if you are happy with that. Images & Editions We use stock images and database descriptions based on the ISBN. The image shown may NOT be the actual book cover you will receive. Covers, editions, printings, and publishers may differ. If you need a specific cover, edition, or printing, please contact us before purchasing. What "Used" Means Because these books are pre-owned: Colouring books may be coloured in Textbooks may have answers filled in, highlighting, notes, or underlining Workbooks may have writing inside Access codes, download codes, CDs, DVDs, or online content are usually missing or already used Books that originally came with toys, inserts, maps, cards, or bonus items will usually NOT include them Pages may be folded, marked, or show normal signs of use If you are buying a book for anything other than reading (e.g. colouring, study use, collecting, gifts, specific covers, bonus items, or digital access), used books may not be suitable. Condition All books are listed as Used - Good Books are clean and readable but not new Some books may have: Writing, highlighting, or markings Folded pages or minor wear A small warehouse or inventory sticker on the spine Original retailer stickers (we do not remove them) Our Process We purchase books by the pallet and scan thousands at a time. For this reason, we cannot photograph or individually inspect every book. Acknowledgement By purchasing, you acknowledge that: You understand the book is used You accept the condition and limitations described above Stock images and descriptions may not exactly match the item received Thank you for supporting Oak Books and helping give books a second life.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 342 pages + 10 prelims. 16 pages of b/w plates. Green boards in jacket. Condition: The jacket has been price-clipped. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 20.5 Cm x 13.5 Cm.

Paperback. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.