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Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 26 December 1791
- Died
- 18 October 1871
- Place of birth
- Walworth
- Place of death
- Marylebone
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Charles
- Family name
- Babbage
- Spouse
- Georgiana Whitmore
- Field of work
- mathematics, analytic philosophy, computer science
- Occupation
- mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, economist, philosopher, university teacher, engineer, astronomer, writer
- Position held
- Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Religion
- Christianity
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Knight of the Royal Order of the Welfs
- academic degree
- Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- contributed to creative work
- Encyclopædia Metropolitana
- depicted by
- Charles Babbage, FRS (1792-1871)
- described by source
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition
- educated at
- Peterhouse, Trinity College, Totnes Grammar School, Alphington Primary School, Forty Hill CofE Primary School
- employer
- University of Cambridge
- has works in the collection
- Science Museum
- influenced by
- Ada Lovelace
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Statistical Society, Analytical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, Academy of Sciences of Turin
- name in native language
- Charles Babbage
- notable work
- analytical engine, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes, difference engine, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher., Laws of mechanical notation (for consideration) / [C. Babbage], Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, On the Mathematical Powers of the Calculating Engine
- number of children
- 8
- place of burial
- Kensal Green Cemetery, Tomb of Charles Babbage
- professorship
- Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
- topic's main category
- Category:Charles Babbage
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
- Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.
- On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
- Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
- Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes
- On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
- Laws of mechanical notation (for consideration) / [C. Babbage]
- On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and art / by Charles Babbage
- Babbage's calculating engines
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