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Ada's algorithm

how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age

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An edition of Ada's algorithm (2014)

Ada's algorithm

how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital 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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Melville House Publishing, Melville House
Language
English
Pages
254

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Subjects

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

People

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

Places

Great Britain

Times

19th century

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

"Originally published by Gibson Square, Ltd, London, 2013"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
510.92, B
Library of Congress
QA29.L72 E87 2014, QA29.L72E87 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 254 pages
Number of pages
254

Edition Identifiers

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OL27168176M
Internet Archive
adasalgorithmhow0000essi
ISBN 10
1612194087
ISBN 13
9781612194080
LCCN
2014021837
OCLC/WorldCat
884439697, 2014021837

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OL19988056W

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