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• Title:Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer / Emily Arnold McCully.
  
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• Author/Creator:McCully, Emily Arnold, author.
  
• Published/Created:Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2019.
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA29.L72 M33 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852--Juvenile literature.
  Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852.
  Women mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography--Juvenile literature.
  Mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography--Juvenile literature.
  Computers--History--19th century--Juvenile literature.
  Women--Biography--Juvenile literature.
  Women mathematicians.
  Mathematicians.
  Computers--History--19th century.
  Women--Biography.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xi, 164 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her narcissistic mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as martyred ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron and had Ada tutored at home by some of the brightest minds. Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen, Ada met inventor Charles Babbage. In spite of the difference of their years, they were kindred spirits and intellects. Their ensuing collaborations would ultimately result in ideas that presaged computer programming by a century. Ada Lovelace is today recognized and celebrated as a pioneer and a prophet of the information age."--Page 2 of cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-157) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780763693565 (hardcover)
  0763693561 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. One 1816
  1824
  ch. 1 Born into Scandal
  ch. 2 Mother and Child with Governesses
  ch. 3 She Has a Father
  pt. Two 1825
  1832
  ch. 4 Her Imagination Soars
  ch. 5 Guarded by Furies
  ch. 6 Elopement
  pt. Three 1833
  1835
  ch. 7 Meeting Babbage
  ch. 8 Role Model
  ch. 9 Courtship and Marriage
  pt. Four 1836
  1842
  ch. 10 Motherhood
  ch. 11 Grasping for Mathematics
  ch. 12 New Engine
  ch. 13 Restless Student
  pt. Five 1842
  1852
  ch. 14 Masterwork
  ch. 15 At Loose Ends
  ch. 16 Restless Spirit
  ch. 17 Awful Death
  Epilogue
  AFTERWORD
  Appendix A Ada's Notes
  Appendix B British Association for the Advancement of Science Declines to Construct an Analytical Engine.