Ada's Algorithm
How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age through the Poetry of Numbers
Published on 5. October 2013
288 pages
978-1-908096-67-8 (ISBN)
Description
The daughter of Lord Byron, Ada was the visionary who recognised the true potential of Babbage's of cog-wheel computer, The Analytical Engine. She demonstrated to the world that computers wouldn't merely be adding machines, but that they would be able to think.
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04/2012
Gibson Square Books Ltd
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James Essinger previous book was chosen as one of the top 5 popular science books of the year by the Economist.. He studied at the University of Oxford (Lincoln College) and is a writer with a particular interest in ideas that have had a practical impact on the modern world. He lives in Canterbury.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- 1. Poetic Beginnings
- 2. Lord Byron
- 3. Annabella
- 4. The Manor of Parallelograms
- 5. The Art of Flying
- 6. Love
- 7. Silken Threads
- 8. When Ada Met Charles
- 9. The Thinking Machine
- 10. Kinship
- 11. Mad Scientist
- 12. A Window on the Future
- 13. The Jacquard Loom
- 14. A Mind with a View
- 15. Ada's Offer to Babbage
- 16. The Enchantress of Number
- 17. A Horrible Death
- 18. Redemption
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
