A Female Genius: How Ada Lovelace Started the Computer Age - Couverture souple

Essinger, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908096667 ISBN 13 : 9781908096661

Editeur : Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A Female Genius tells the astonishing story how Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, was poised to start the computer age almost two centuries ago, in 1840s London. Despite encountering opposition the principles of science were beyond the strength of a woman s physical power of application, she was the only nineteenth-century scientist to achieve this understanding. She wrote the world's first computer programme and foresaw our use of CDs for music.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gibson Square Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908096667
• ISBN 13: 9781908096661
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 288