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Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Essinger, James, 1957-
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2014]
Subjects:
Lovelace, Ada King, > Countess of, > 1815-1852.
Babbage, Charles, > 1791-1871.
Women mathematicians > Great Britain > Biography.
Mathematicians > Great Britain > Biography.
Computers > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.