Programming Research Group
Technical Report TR-9-94
A Brief History of Algebra and Computing:
An Eclectic Oxonian View
Jonathan Bowen
July 1994, 11pp.
Dedicated to
Prof. C.A.R. Hoare, FRS,
James Martin Professor of Computing at the
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
on his 60th birthday in 1994.
If you are faced by a difficulty or a controversy in
science, an ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.
-- J.B.S Haldane
That excellent woman knew no more about Homer than she did about
Algebra, but she was quite contented with Pen's arrangements
... and felt perfectly confident that her dear boy would
get the place which he merited.
-- Pendennis (1848-50)
by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863),
the story of the progress of an Oxford
student.
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