xix, 133 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Contents
The lady and the engine -- The programming of Ada Byron -- The mathematical milieu -- The programming of Ada Lovelace -- Byronic counterforces -- The "notes" -- Yearnings and defeat -- Appendixes. Ada in Byron's poetry -- The Victorian medical world -- Ada in twentieth-century literature -- The Ada programming language
Summary
This biography of Countess Lovelace, Augusta Ada Byron King (daughter of Lord and Lady Byron), examines the life of a gifted mathematician in a time when women simply didn't pursue mathematics
