The Resource Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger
Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger
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- Summary
- Behind every great man, there's a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer, and mathematician Ada Lovelace, whose contributions, according to Essinger, proved indispensable to Babbage's invention. The Analytical Engine was a series of cogwheels, gear-shafts, camshafts, and power transmission rods controlled by a punch-card system based on the Jacquard loom. Lovelace, the only legitimate child of English poet Lord Byron, wrote extensive notes about the machine, including an algorithm to compute a long sequence of Bernoulli numbers, which some observers now consider to be the world's first computer program
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 254 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Originally published: London : Gibson Square, Ltd., 2013
- Isbn
- 9781612194080
- Label
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Title
- Ada's algorithm
- Title remainder
- how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Statement of responsibility
- James Essinger
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Behind every great man, there's a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer, and mathematician Ada Lovelace, whose contributions, according to Essinger, proved indispensable to Babbage's invention. The Analytical Engine was a series of cogwheels, gear-shafts, camshafts, and power transmission rods controlled by a punch-card system based on the Jacquard loom. Lovelace, the only legitimate child of English poet Lord Byron, wrote extensive notes about the machine, including an algorithm to compute a long sequence of Bernoulli numbers, which some observers now consider to be the world's first computer program
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Essinger, James
- Dewey number
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- 510.92
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QA29.L72
- LC item number
- E87 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Lovelace, Ada King
- Babbage, Charles
- Women mathematicians
- Mathematicians
- Computers
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger
- Note
- Originally published: London : Gibson Square, Ltd., 2013
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 254 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781612194080
- Lccn
- 2014021837
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn884439697
- (Sirsi) o884439697
- (OCoLC)884439697
- Label
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age, James Essinger
- Note
- Originally published: London : Gibson Square, Ltd., 2013
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 254 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781612194080
- Lccn
- 2014021837
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn884439697
- (Sirsi) o884439697
- (OCoLC)884439697
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