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Essinger, James, 1957-
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Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852
Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Family.
Computer programmers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women mathematicians -- History -- 19th century.
Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Mathematicians -- History -- 19th century.
Analytical Engine (Computer)
Computers -- History -- 19th century.
Algorithms -- History -- 19th century.
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Essinger, James, 1957-
Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852
Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Family.
Computer programmers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women mathematicians -- History -- 19th century.
Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Mathematicians -- History -- 19th century.
Analytical Engine (Computer)
Computers -- History -- 19th century.
Algorithms -- History -- 19th century.
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Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age / James Essinger.
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Essinger, James, 1957-
Melville House, [2014]
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510.92 L898e
Subjects
Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852
Babbage, Charles,
1791-1871
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Family.
Computer programmers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women mathematicians -- History -- 19th century.
Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Mathematicians -- History -- 19th century.
Analytical Engine (Computer)
Computers -- History -- 19th century.
Algorithms -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781612194080 (hc.)
1612194087 (hc.)
Description:
xvi, 254 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.
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.
Summary:
Behind every great man, there's a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer, and mathematician Ada Lovelace, whose contributions, according to Essinger, proved indispensable to Babbage's invention. The Analytical Engine was a series of cogwheels, gear-shafts, camshafts, and power transmission rods controlled by a punch-card system based on the Jacquard loom. Lovelace, the only legitimate child of English poet Lord Byron, wrote extensive notes about the machine, including an algorithm to compute a long sequence of Bernoulli numbers, which some observers now consider to be the world's first computer program.
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