Bride Of Science: Romance, Reason, And Byrons Daughter; Author: Woolley, Benjamin; Paperback

Author: Woolley, Benjamin
Paperback; 10 Halftones
422 pages
Published: February 2002
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
ISBN: 0071388605
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Known in her day as an enchantress of numbers, Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, was one of the most fascinating women of the 19th century. In collaboration withCharles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical thinking machine that anticipated by more than a century the invention of the computer, Ada devised a method of using punch cards to calculate Bernoulli numbers and thus became the mother of computer programming. It was in her honor that, in 1980, the U.S. Department of Defense named its computer language Ada.-- In this critically acclaimed biography, Benjamin Woolley, author of The Queen's Conjurer, portrays Ada Byron's life as the embodiment of the schism between the worlds of romanticism and scientific rationalism. He describes how Ada's efThis text tells the story of Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, who was connected with some of the most influential and colourful characters of the age. What makes her story so fascinating is the way she personified the seismic historical changes taking place.