The medieval prophet of computer science
BBC's Philip Ball talks to historian Pamela Beattie about Ramon Llull's life and times in 13th century Catalonia.
An illustration of the Ars Magna, Ramon Llull's tool for generating logic statements.
Humanities Prof. Pamela Beattie joined the BBC's Science Stories podcast to talk about Ramon Llull's life and times in 13th century Catalonia. Ramon Llull is considered by many as a pioneer of computation theory and claim that his system of logic was the beginning of information science. Prof. Beattie's piece begins at around 9 minutes.
