Ada's Algorithm
How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers
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2016
Gibson Square Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78334-071-2 (ISBN)
Gibson Square Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78334-071-2 (ISBN)
How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, became the world's first computer programmer in 1842 and would have started the digital age.
Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting among women and Ada became the world's first computer programmer. But for her era's view on gender, Ada would single-handedly have started the digital age more than two centuries ago.
Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting among women and Ada became the world's first computer programmer. But for her era's view on gender, Ada would single-handedly have started the digital age more than two centuries ago.
James Essinger studied at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He writes about ideas that have had a seminal impact on the modern world and currently lives in Canterbury.
Preface1Poetic Beginnings2Lord Byron: A Scandalous Ancestry3Annabella: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes4The Manor of Parallelograms5The Art of Flying6Love7Silken Threads8When Ada Met Charles9The Thinking Machine10Kinship11Mad Scientist12The Analytical Engine13The Jacquard Loom14A Mind with a View15Ada's Offer to Babbage16The Enchantress of Number17A Horrible Death18RedemptionAfterwordNotesAcknowledgementsIndex
| Verlagsort | London |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78334-071-1 / 1783340711 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78334-071-2 / 9781783340712 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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