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Jsou s námi počítače už čtyři století?

Title in English Have the computers been with us since four centuries ago?
Authors

DURNOVÁ Helena

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source DVT, Dějiny věd a techniky
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Keywords computer science; mathematics; history of computing; Wilhelm Schickard
Description Which computer was the first one? In this contribution, we commemorate the invention by Wilhelm Schickard, described in his letter to Johannes Kepler, written in 1623, and discuss why it is usually Blaise Pascal's slightly later invention which is usually mentioned as the first computer.

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