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

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

James Essinger

256 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science adventurous informative slow-paced
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Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named "Ada," after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century's version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such ...

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