Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
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- ISBN: 9781612194080 (hardback) :
- ISBN: 1612194087 (hardback)
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xvi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2014]
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Poetic beginnings -- Lord Byron : a scandalous ancestry -- Annabella : Anglo-Saxon attitudes -- The manor of parallelograms -- The art of flying -- Love -- Silken threads -- When Ada met Charles -- The thinking machine -- Kinship -- Mad scientist -- The analytical engine -- The Jacquard loom -- A mind with a view -- Ada's offer to Babbage -- The Enchantress of Number -- A horrible death -- Redemption. |
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Subject: | Lovelace, Ada King Countess of 1815-1852 Babbage, Charles 1791-1871 Women mathematicians Great Britain Biography Mathematicians Great Britain Biography Computers History 19th century |
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