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Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting among women and Ada became the world's first computer programmer. But for her era's view on gender, Ada would single-handedly have started the digital age more than two centuries ago.

Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers

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Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography... Read more

    Publisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 13/10/2016
    ISBN13: 9781783340712, 978-1783340712
    ISBN10: 1783340711

    Number of Pages: 256

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting among women and Ada became the world's first computer programmer. But for her era's view on gender, Ada would single-handedly have started the digital age more than two centuries ago.

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