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Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age through the poetry of numbers

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Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain.

This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting among women and Ada became the world's first computer programmer.

But for her era's view on gender, Ada would single-handedly have started the digital age more than two centuries ago.

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Gibson Square Books Ltd
1783340711 / 9781783340712
Paperback / softback
510.92
13/10/2016
United Kingdom
English
254 pages : illustrations (black and white)
20 cm