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A female genius

how Ada Lovelace Lord Byron's daughter, started the computer age

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An edition of Ada's algorithm (2014)

A female genius

how Ada Lovelace Lord Byron's daughter, started the computer age

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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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Gibson Square
Language
English
Pages
256

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Women mathematicians, Computers, Mathematicians, Biography, History, COMPUTERS / History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, Mathematicians, biography, Great britain, biography, Computers, history, Babbage, charles, 1792-1871, Calculators, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Science & Technology, MATHEMATICS, Essays, Pre-Calculus, Reference, Programm, Mathematik, Rechenmaschine

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Ada King Lovelace Countess of (1815-1852), Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

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Great Britain

Times

19th century
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Cover of: Ada's algorithm
Ada's algorithm: how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
2014, Melville House Publishing, Melville House
in English
Cover of: A female genius
A female genius: how Ada Lovelace Lord Byron's daughter, started the computer age
2014, Gibson Square
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.

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London

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Dewey Decimal Class
510.92
Library of Congress
QA29.L72 E87 2014, QA29.L68 E87 2013eb, QA29.L72E87 2014

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256 pages
Number of pages
256

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OL30961776M
Internet Archive
femalegeniushowa0000essi
ISBN 10
1908096667
ISBN 13
9781908096661
LCCN
2013432956

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OL19988056W

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