An Evaluation of Charles Babbage’s Mathematical and Management Ideas

Charles Babbage is widely known as the ‘Father of Modern Computers’, but his contributions to the field of management have not been given much recognition. He advocated for applying scientific and systematic techniques in industrialized age, which helped in lowering costs, enhancing production and improving the ways of managing. In the present study, Babbage’s thoughts have been critically analysed in terms of their application and validity in the contemporary era. The evaluation of criticism faced by this mathematician has also been done. The paper concludes that Babbage’s ideas were valid when proposed by him and majority of his ideas are valid even after nearly hundred years. In fact, he successfully laid foundation for many of Taylor’s Scientific Management principles and Quantitative theory proposed in 19th century.