Ada's Algorithm: How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's Daughter, Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers: How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers

James Essinger

ISBN 10: 1783340711 / ISBN 13: 9781783340712

Published by Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Ada's Algorithm: How Ada Lovelace, Lord ...

Publisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd

Publication Date: 2022

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

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.

Review:

''The story that might have started the computer age a century sooner.'' --Independent

''Engrossing.'' --New York Times

''Anyone who thinks Lovelace s contribution to computer science is overrated, should read [this] new biography.'' --Engineering and Technology Magazine