Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer is a biographical book about the Victorian computer pioneer Charles Babbage (1791–1871). The book was written by Anthony Hyman (1928–2011), a British historian of computing. The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1982 (hardcover) and Princeton University Press in 1982 and 1985 (hardcover and paperback). The book is available online from Archive.org.

Reviews

The book has been reviewed in the following journals and magazines:

Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer

The American Mathematical Monthly

Business History

The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education

Isis

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A

Library Journal

London Review of Books

Mathematical Reviews

Mathematics of Computation

Science

SIAM Review

Technology and Culture

References

1982 non-fiction books

British biographies

Oxford University Press books

Princeton University Press books

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer