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Charles Babbage (26 December – 18 October ) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who developed the concept of a programmable computer.

“The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.”

&#; Charles Babbage, () Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, ch.

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Babbage was born in London, England in As a child, he had a variety of tutors and schools and developed a love of mathematics. In , he was accepted to Trinity College, Cambridge.

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He later transferred to Peterhouse, Cambridge where he received an honorary degree in mathematics.

At Cambridge, he was dissappointed by the quality of the maths teaching, but joined the Analytical Society &#; a group of like minded students, interested in exploring issues of mathematics. It was as a student that he conceived of an idea to try and do calculations with a machine.

It was after looking at a table for logarithms, (many of which were wrong) that he tho