The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter - Couverture rigide

Woolley, Benjamin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0071373292 ISBN 13 : 9780071373296

Editeur : McGraw-Hill Professional, 2001

Synopsis

Lady Lovelace, Ada Byron, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, wrote a plan to use Charles Babbage's "thinking machine" to calculate Bernoulli numbers and to many she is considered to be the world's first computer programmer. Her attempts to reconcile the world of Romanticism and the world of science and machines, to create a "poetical science" helped her to produce a remarkable career in the Victorian age. This biography offers a look at her life in maths and science and analyzes the death of Romanticism and the birth of the machine age.

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À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin Woolley is a writer and broadcaster. He has contributed to a range of BBC programs, including an edition of a Horizon on 'artificial life', and a Bookmark on Aldous Huxley. He is a freelance contributor to a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Telegraphs, The Guardian, The Independent and the Times Literary Supplement.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0071373292
• ISBN 13: 9780071373296
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
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• Personne responsable: non disponible