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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... daughter's only name : " It is short - antient - vocalic " and had been in the Byron family for years , not to mention the Bible ; Lameth's wife in Genesis is named Ada , he pointed out . 15 Byron also recalled Charlemagne's sister and ...
... daughter's only name : " It is short - antient - vocalic " and had been in the Byron family for years , not to mention the Bible ; Lameth's wife in Genesis is named Ada , he pointed out . 15 Byron also recalled Charlemagne's sister and ...
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... daughter ? " 18 Although an 1848 article in the Atheneum identified the count- ess of Lovelace as the translator of Menabrea's " Sketch " of the Analytical Engine and the author of the " Notes , " the reference was brief and ...
... daughter ? " 18 Although an 1848 article in the Atheneum identified the count- ess of Lovelace as the translator of Menabrea's " Sketch " of the Analytical Engine and the author of the " Notes , " the reference was brief and ...
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... daughter of Ada's daughter , Lady Anne Blunt . The title of Wentworth could pass through the female line and went from Lady Byron to Ralph ( Ada's son ) , to his daughter Ada . When this second Ada died in June 1917 the title went ...
... daughter of Ada's daughter , Lady Anne Blunt . The title of Wentworth could pass through the female line and went from Lady Byron to Ralph ( Ada's son ) , to his daughter Ada . When this second Ada died in June 1917 the title went ...
Contents
The Mathematical Milieu | 17 |
Byronic Counterforces | 52 |
The Notes | 67 |
Copyright | |
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