The Calculating Passion of Ada ByronThis biography of Countess Lovelace, Augusta Ada Byron King (daughter of Lord and Lady Byron), examines the life of a gifted mathematician in a time when women simply didn't pursue mathematics. |
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... Caroline Fox , wrote in her Autobiography , " such empirical prac- tice [ phrenology ] is insulting and injurious to true science , " 2 but Lady Byron did not see it that way . She believed in the practice and consulted phrenologists ...
... Caroline Fox , wrote in her Autobiography , " such empirical prac- tice [ phrenology ] is insulting and injurious to true science , " 2 but Lady Byron did not see it that way . She believed in the practice and consulted phrenologists ...
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... Caroline Fox , there was similar recollection . Lady Byron had an edition of Byron's works in her library to which Ada had " free access , " but in which , apparently , she had no interest.15 Was it the Collected Poems , bound in yellow ...
... Caroline Fox , there was similar recollection . Lady Byron had an edition of Byron's works in her library to which Ada had " free access , " but in which , apparently , she had no interest.15 Was it the Collected Poems , bound in yellow ...
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... Caroline Fox suggest , two ladies who had enlisted on Lady Byron's side . As Sophia noted in her Reminiscences , Lady Byron had once read some of Lord Byron's " beautiful minor poems " to Ada , who did not appreciate them . " Just as ...
... Caroline Fox suggest , two ladies who had enlisted on Lady Byron's side . As Sophia noted in her Reminiscences , Lady Byron had once read some of Lord Byron's " beautiful minor poems " to Ada , who did not appreciate them . " Just as ...
Contents
The Mathematical Milieu | 17 |
Byronic Counterforces | 52 |
The Notes | 67 |
Copyright | |
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