The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage : with interesting & curious anecdotes of celebrated and distinguished characters fully illustrating a variety of instructive and amusing scenes ; as performed within and without the remarkable difference engine / Sydney Padua.
Padua, Sydney, author.
2015
PN6737.P34 T48 2015 (Mapit)
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Title The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage : with interesting & curious anecdotes of celebrated and distinguished characters fully illustrating a variety of instructive and amusing scenes ; as performed within and without the remarkable difference engine / Sydney Padua.
Author Padua, Sydney, author.
ISBN 9780307908278 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
0307908275 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
9780307908285 (eBook)
0307908283
9780307908285
Published New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description 315 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Call Number PN6737.P34 T48 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 741.5/942
Summary 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 to build runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wilder realms of mathematics, and, of course, fight crime -- for the sake of both London and science. Complete with extensive footnotes that rival those penned by Lovelace herself, historical curiosities, and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered computer.
Note "The (mostly) true story of the first computer"--Jacket.
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The pocket universe
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Lovelace and Babbage vs. the economic model!
Luddites!
User experience!
Mr. Boole comes to tea
Imaginary quantities
Appendix I: Some amusing primary documents
Appendix II: The analytical engine.

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