The Bride of Science
About this book
Benjamin Woolley explores Ada Lovelace's life. He offers a fascinating insight into how Ada personified the changing times during the first half of the 19th century. Wooley shows Ada's struggle to reconcile the Romanticism embodied by her father, the famed poet Lord Byron, and a childhood of Mathematics and Science.
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- OL Work ID
- OL4279942W
Subjects
Aristocracy (Social class)BiographyComputers and womenDescendentsHistoryWomen mathematiciansBiographiesLovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852.Mathematicians, biographyGreat britain, biographyMathematiciansWomen computer programmersComputersSocial change