Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
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Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2014].
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9781612194080 (hardback), 9781612194080, 1612194087
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xvi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Published
Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2014].
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Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781612194080 (hardback), 9781612194080, 1612194087
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Essinger, J. (2014). Ada's algorithm: how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age . Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Essinger, James, 1957-. 2014. Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age. Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Essinger, James, 1957-. Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age Melville House, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Essinger, James. Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age Melville House, 2014.
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