Synopsis
Daughter of the poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words. In 1834 she came to the attention of Charles Babbage, a scientist and techno-whizz who had just built an amazing new 'thinking machine'. Babbage took to Ada and asked her to work with him. Thus began a remarkable collaboration, which eventually bore fruit in the most important invention of the modern world - the computer.
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Review
"An extraordinarily readable and compact biography of the Victorian mathematical genius Ada Lovelace..." -- BfK No.140, SU, May 2003
"Never has a gap in the market been wider. These are exactly what children traditionally love to read." -- Evening Standard, Gill Hornby
"Remarkably informative and lots of fun, these excellent little books pack a big punch." -- Philip Ardagh
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WINNER of the prestigious Blue Peter Book Award: "Best Book With Facts 2002"
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