The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Author: Padua, Sydney
ISBN: 9780141981536
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 19 Sep 2016
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
'My new favourite book. It has everything. Byron, maths, imaginary computers, emotion' - Matt Haig
Meet two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses... Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron: mathematician, gambler, and proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory. And Charles Babbage, eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer...
ISBN: 9780141981536
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 19 Sep 2016
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
'My new favourite book. It has everything. Byron, maths, imaginary computers, emotion' - Matt Haig
Meet two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses... Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron: mathematician, gambler, and proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory. And Charles Babbage, eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer...
