Ada Lovelace by Christopher Hollings
Featuring images of the first programme and Lovelaces correspondence, alongside mathematical models, and contemporary illustrations, this book shows how Ada Lovelace, with astonishing prescience, explored key mathematical questions to understand the principles behind modern computing.
'Particularly fascinating is her correspondence with De Morgan, in which strings of numbers, signs and equilateral triangles dance excitedly across the page' -- Kathryn Hughes * The Guardian *
'This lavishly illustrated short biography draws on much unpublished material such as her correspondence with the leading mathematician Augustus De Morgan.' -- Matthew Reisz * THES *
'This historical book will hopefully soon be in all schools and libraries for study and inspiration.' * Armadillo Magazine *
'A beautiful and very readable account of a pioneering woman who made a notable contribution to science - hightly recommended!' * Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings *
'Brief, well-illustrated and lucid account of her career.' * LRB *
'In "Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist", the authors give a splendidly crisp, clear description of her education, explaining the vogue for mathematics against the background of nineteenth-century concerns with industry, steam, navigation, and statistics. This short book is also enlivened by superb illustrations. To see Ada’s careful penmanship as she asks increasingly difficult questions somehow makes abstract calculations human and equations suddenly exciting. That intimate enjoyment is clearer still from the scrap of paper that records her and the mathematician Charles Babbage playing with mathematical puzzles: he draws diagrams in a scratchy pen, while she leans over and adds to them in pencil. Dusty archives dance into life.' -- Jenny Uglow * The New York Review of Books *
'Airs some fascinating material from the library's deepest archives … clearly intended as an inspiration to girls to pursue their scientific interests.' * TLS *
'This fascinating biography traces the extraordinary rise of Ada Lovelace as a mathematician and, potentially, one of the first computer scientists.' * Significance Magazine (Royal Statistical Society) *
'This richly illustrated biography introduces Ada Lovelace to a general readership … [and] presents substantial evidence that indeed the work as a whole was fully within her capability.' * Mathematical Reviews *
'Computer science sorely needs some female icons, but it is unhelpful to construct romanticised semi-goddesses. By reproducing so many of her own letters and diagrams, these three mathematical authors have presented a more honest portrayal of Ada Lovelace.' * Women's History Review *
'This lavishly illustrated short biography draws on much unpublished material such as her correspondence with the leading mathematician Augustus De Morgan.' -- Matthew Reisz * THES *
'This historical book will hopefully soon be in all schools and libraries for study and inspiration.' * Armadillo Magazine *
'A beautiful and very readable account of a pioneering woman who made a notable contribution to science - hightly recommended!' * Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings *
'Brief, well-illustrated and lucid account of her career.' * LRB *
'In "Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist", the authors give a splendidly crisp, clear description of her education, explaining the vogue for mathematics against the background of nineteenth-century concerns with industry, steam, navigation, and statistics. This short book is also enlivened by superb illustrations. To see Ada’s careful penmanship as she asks increasingly difficult questions somehow makes abstract calculations human and equations suddenly exciting. That intimate enjoyment is clearer still from the scrap of paper that records her and the mathematician Charles Babbage playing with mathematical puzzles: he draws diagrams in a scratchy pen, while she leans over and adds to them in pencil. Dusty archives dance into life.' -- Jenny Uglow * The New York Review of Books *
'Airs some fascinating material from the library's deepest archives … clearly intended as an inspiration to girls to pursue their scientific interests.' * TLS *
'This fascinating biography traces the extraordinary rise of Ada Lovelace as a mathematician and, potentially, one of the first computer scientists.' * Significance Magazine (Royal Statistical Society) *
'This richly illustrated biography introduces Ada Lovelace to a general readership … [and] presents substantial evidence that indeed the work as a whole was fully within her capability.' * Mathematical Reviews *
'Computer science sorely needs some female icons, but it is unhelpful to construct romanticised semi-goddesses. By reproducing so many of her own letters and diagrams, these three mathematical authors have presented a more honest portrayal of Ada Lovelace.' * Women's History Review *
Christopher Hollings is a Departmental Lecturer in the Oxford Mathematical Institute, and a Senior Research Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford. Ursula Martin is a Professor at the University of Oxford whose research interests span mathematics, computer science and the humanities. Adrian Rice is Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781851244881 |
| ISBN 10 | 1851244883 |
| Title | Ada Lovelace |
| Author | Christopher Hollings |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bodleian Library |
| Year published | 2018-04-27 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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