{"product_id":"books-enchantress-of-numbers-by-jennifer-chiaverini","title":"Enchantress of Numbers","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Cherished Reader, Should you come upon \u003ci\u003eEnchantress of Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e by Jennifer Chiaverini...consider yourself quite fortunate indeed....Chiaverini makes a convincing case that Ada Byron King is a woman worth celebrating.\"\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of\u003ci\u003eMrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003eSwitchboard Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace-Lord Byron's daughter and the world's first computer programmer.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous ofthe Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. But her mathematician mother, estranged from Ada's infamous and destructively passionate father, is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's motherprovides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics andscience. Any troubling spark of imagination-or worse yet, passion or poetry-ispromptly extinguished. Or so her mother believes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Ada is introduced into London society as a highly eligible young heiress, she atlast discovers the intellectual and social circles she has craved all her life. Little doesshe realize how her exciting new friendship with Charles Babbage-the brilliant,charming, and occasionally curmudgeonly inventor of an extraordinary machine, the Difference Engine-will define her destiny.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEnchantress of Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e unveils the passions, dreams, and insatiable thirst for knowledge of a largelyunheralded pioneer in computing-a young woman who stepped out of her father'sshadow to achieve her own laurels and champion the new technology that wouldshape the future.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673481666833,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781101985212.jpg?v=1781525993","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-enchantress-of-numbers-by-jennifer-chiaverini","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}