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• Title:Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age / James Essinger.
  
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• Author/Creator:Essinger, James, 1957-
  
• Published/Created:Brooklyn : Melville House, [2014]
  ©2014
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) Great ReadsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA29.L72 E87 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress 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.
  
• Genre/Form: Biographies.
  
• Description:xvi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:"The world's first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron finally gets credit for her research in this gossipy short biography Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named "Ada," after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century's version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan Turing began to rediscover her, it slowly became apparent that she had been a key but overlooked figure in the invention of the computer. In Ada Lovelace, James Essinger makes the case that the computer age could have started two centuries ago if Lovelace's contemporaries had recognized her research and fully grasped its implications. It's a remarkable tale, starting with the outrageous behavior of her father, which made Ada instantly famous upon birth. Ada would go on to overcome numerous obstacles to obtain a level of education typically forbidden to women of her day. She would eventually join forces with Charles Babbage, generally credited with inventing the computer, although as Essinger makes clear, Babbage couldn't have done it without Lovelace. Indeed, Lovelace wrote what is today considered the world's first computer program--despite opposition that the principles of science were "beyond the strength of a woman's physical power of application." Based on ten years of research and filled with fascinating characters and observations of the period, not to mention numerous illustrations, Essinger tells Ada's fascinating story in unprecedented detail to absorbing and inspiring effect"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781612194080 (hardback)
  1612194087 (hardback)
  9781612194097 (ebook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Poetic Beginnings
  2. Lord Byron: A Scandalous Ancestry
  3. Annabella: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
  4. Manor of Parallelograms
  5. Art of Flying
  6. Love
  7. Silken Threads
  8. When Ada Met Charles
  9. Thinking Machine
  10. Kinship
  11. Mad Scientist
  12. Analytical Engine
  13. Jacquard Loom
  14. Mind with a View
  15. Ada's Offer to Babbage
  16. Enchantress of Number
  17. Horrible Death
  18. Redemption.