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a selection from the letters of Lord Byron's daughter and her description of the first computer

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An edition of Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers (1992)

Ada, the enchantress of numbers

a selection from the letters of Lord Byron's daughter and her description of the first computer

1st ed.

by and

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Ada Lovelace: The World's First Hacker. . .
"Toole did research for more than eight years, burying herself in British archives and libraries to narrate and edit this extraordinary collection of letters written by Ada Lovelace. Not only do they outline Ada's ingenuity for the sciences, but they also enlighten us on all aspects of Lady Lovelace's multidimensional life: her passionate desire to flourish in a "man's world," her battle with drug addiction and chronic sickness, and her efforts as a mother and wife. Lovelace also had a reputation as a wild gambler and a lover. What can tell us more truthfully about Ms. Lovelace's life than letters from the Lady herself?" --Carla Sinclair

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Strawberry Press, Orders to Critical Connection
Language
English
Pages
439

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Subjects
Calculators, Computers, Correspondence, Mathematicians, computing, computresses, letters, woman scientists
People
Ada King Lovelace Countess of (1815-1852), Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Places
Great Britain
Times
1815-1852

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Ada, the enchantress of numbers: prophet of the computer age : a pathway to the 21st century
1998, Strawberry Press
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1992, Strawberry Press, Orders to Critical Connection
in English - 1st ed.
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Mill Valley, California, Sausalito, California

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Timeline
Family Tree
Cast of Characters
Introduction
1. Cats and Flying Machines [1824-1828]
2. Conversational Litigation, I Am an Altered Person, Ada Meets Babbage, The Rainbow [1829-1834]
3. Make It Part of Your Mind, Solving Unsolvable Equations, The Royal Road to Mathematics [1834-1835]
4. Love and Marriage, Establishing Three Households, The Birth of Byron [1835-1836]
5. Two More Children, Ada Becomes a Countess, Gift of Tongues [1836-1839]
6. A Peculiar Way of Learning, Immeasurable Vista, Solitaire, The Great Unknown [1839-1841]
7. In Due Time I Shall Be a Poet, A Scientific Trinity, A Most Strange and Dreadful History [1841]
8. I Have a Duty to Perform, Avis-Phoenix, Will-o'-the-Wisps [1841]
9. Scorn and Fury, Poetical Genius, Not Dropping the Thread of Mathematics, A Nice Colony of Friends [1842]
10. Working Like the Devil, A Fairy in Your Service, What a General I Would Make, An Analyst and a Metaphysician [1843]
11. Multitudinous Charlatans and the Enchantress of Numbers [1843]
12. The Analyst and the Metaphysician, and the Analytical Engine: A Selection from Ada's Notes [1843]
13. Fairy Guidance, My Metaphysical Child, Caged Bird [1843-1844]
14. Planetary Systems, Not a Snail-Shell But a Molecular Laboratory, A Newton for the Molecular Universe [1844]
15. A Calculus of the Nervous System, A Hospitable Chaos, The Traitor, Too Much Mathematics [1844]
16. Vestiges, Obedient with Safety, Poetical Science [1845-1846]
17. A Transition State [1846-1850]
18. Descending into the Grave, Resurrection, Be a Gypsy, Doomsday [1850-1851]
19. Catch a Comet, Not �5 in My Purse, Give the Despots a Shove [1851]
20. The Dragon and the Rainbow [1851-1852]
Appendix I: Footnotes, Bibliographies, Biographies, including Web addresses
Appendix II: Critical Questions along the Pathway to the 21st Century
Index

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-430) and index.
Letters to and from the Countess of Lovelace, 1824-1852.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
510/.92, B
Library of Congress
QA29.L72 A4 1992

Contributors

Editor
Betty Alexandra Toole

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 439 p. :
Number of pages
439

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1571641M
ISBN 10
0912647094
LCCN
91066442
Library Thing
378799
Wikidata
Q124504977
Goodreads
264221

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