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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary by Oxford University

Dec 18, 201542:12Technology

Judith Grabiner, Pitzer College describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and...

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