Books Details
Author : Sydney Padua Pages : pages Publisher : Pantheon Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0307908275 ISBN-13 : 9780307908278
Books Descriptions
THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in
which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific
collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures. Meet Victorian
London?s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of
the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar
protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. When Lovelace translated a
description of Babbage?s plans for an enormous mechanical calculating
machine in 1842, she added annotations three times longer than the
original work. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general
computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built.
Sadly, Lovelace died of cancer a decade after publishing the paper, and
Babbage never built any of his machines. But do not despair! The Thrilling
Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a rollicking alternate reality
in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and then
use it
