Author : Ada King Countess of Lovelace
Publisher : Critical Connection
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029478214
Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers by Ada King Countess of Lovelace Pdf
Toole did research for more than eight years, burying herself in British archives and libraries to narrate and edit this extraordinary collection of letters written by Ada Lovelace. Not only do they outline Ada's ingenuity for the sciences, but they also enlighten us on all aspects of Lady Lovelace's multidimensional life: her passionate desire to flourish in a "man's world," her battle with drug addiction and chronic sickness, and her efforts as a mother and wife. Lovelace also had a reputation as a wild gambler and a lover. Ada was one of the first to write programs of instructions for Babbage's Analytical Engines, the famous precursors to the modern digital computer. Ada's letters are some of the classic founding documents of cybernetics and computer science, written nearly a century before ENIAC.