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Ada Lovelace - The Making of a Computer Scientist (Hardcover)
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Ada Lovelace - The Making of a Computer Scientist (Hardcover)
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Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), daughter of romantic poet
Lord Byron and his highly educated wife, Anne Isabella, is
sometimes called the world's first computer programmer and has
become an icon for women in technology. But how did a young woman
in the nineteenth century, without access to formal school or
university education, acquire the knowledge and expertise to become
a pioneer of computer science? Although an unusual pursuit for
women at the time, Ada Lovelace studied science and mathematics
from a young age. This book uses previously unpublished archival
material to explore her precocious childhood, from her ideas for a
steam-powered flying horse to penetrating questions about the
science of rainbows. A remarkable correspondence course with the
eminent mathematician Augustus De Morgan shows her developing into
a gifted, perceptive and knowledgeable mathematician. Active in
Victorian London's social and scientific elite alongside Mary
Somerville, Michael Faraday and Charles Dickens, Ada Lovelace
became fascinated by the computing machines devised by Charles
Babbage. The table of mathematical formulae sometimes called the
'first programme' occurs in her paper about his most ambitious
invention, his unbuilt 'Analytical Engine'. Ada Lovelace died at
just thirty-six, but her paper still strikes a chord to this day,
with clear explanations of the principles of computing, and broader
ideas on computer music and artificial intelligence now realised in
modern digital computers. Featuring images of the 'first programme'
and Lovelace's correspondence, alongside mathematical models, and
contemporary illustrations, this book shows how Ada Lovelace, with
astonishing prescience, explored key mathematical questions to
understand the principles behind modern computing.
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