How Does Mathematics Become Software?
In short: A short history of how a mathematical method becomes instructions a machine can carry out, from teams of human computers through Babbage's engines, Lovelace's loop and stored programs to FORTRAN.
A 1:27 short film in the series “From Fingers to Qubits”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Science Museum (Science Museum Group), “Charles Babbage’s Difference Engines and the Science Museum | Science Museum”; History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, “Imagining AI - Babbage & Lovelace”; Computer History Museum, “Human Computers - CHM Revolution”; Internet Archive (digitised copy held by Smithsonian Institution Libraries), “First draft of a report on the EDVAC : Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “ENIAC | History, Computer, Stands For, Machine, & Facts | Britannica”; TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), University of Oxford, “Ada Lovelace”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer | Britannica”; Computer History Museum (CHM), “Making the Case - CHM Revolution”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Stored-program computer | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica”; Encyclopædia Britannica, “Computer - Programming, FORTRAN, IBM | Britannica”.
Sources used in this film
- Science Museum (Science Museum Group) — Charles Babbage’s Difference Engines and the Science Museum | Science Museum · View →
- History of Science Museum, University of Oxford — Imagining AI - Babbage & Lovelace · View →
- Computer History Museum — Human Computers - CHM Revolution · View →
- Internet Archive (digitised copy held by Smithsonian Institution Libraries) — First draft of a report on the EDVAC : Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — ENIAC | History, Computer, Stands For, Machine, & Facts | Britannica · View →
- TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), University of Oxford — Ada Lovelace · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer | Britannica · View →
- Computer History Museum (CHM) — Making the Case - CHM Revolution · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Stored-program computer | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica · View →
- Encyclopædia Britannica — Computer - Programming, FORTRAN, IBM | Britannica · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Charles Babbage’s Difference Engines and the Science Museum | Science Museum
- Also: History of Science Museum, University of Oxford: Imagining AI - Babbage & Lovelace
- Also: Computer History Museum: Human Computers - CHM Revolution
- Also: Internet Archive (digitised copy held by Smithsonian Institution Libraries): First draft of a report on the EDVAC : Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: ENIAC | History, Computer, Stands For, Machine, & Facts | Britannica
- Also: TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), University of Oxford: Ada Lovelace
- Also: Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer | Britannica
- Also: Computer History Museum (CHM): Making the Case - CHM Revolution
- Also: www.britannica.com — Stored-program computer | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica
- Also: Encyclopædia Britannica: Computer - Programming, FORTRAN, IBM | Britannica
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