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.
"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 mechan...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Ada Lovelace: The secret origin!
- The pocket universe
- The person from Porlock
- Lovelace & Babbage vs. the client!
- Primary sources
- 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.