Ada Lovelace : mathematician and first programmer /
Lew, Kristi.
Ada Lovelace : mathematician and first programmer / Kristi Lew. - New York : Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services, (c)2018. - 1 online resource - Britannica beginner bios .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Ch. 1. Who was Ada Lovelace? -- chapter 2. A young mathematician -- chapter 3. Studying machines -- chapter 4. Reason meets imagination -- chapter 5. Remembering Ada.
Nearly one hundred years before the advent of the computer age, Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, published the first set of instructions intended to extract data from a machine. This accessible, engaging biography will introduce readers to the mathematician who is considered by many to be the world's first computer programmer. Readers follow Lovelace, the daughter of renowned romantic poet Lord Byron and his highly educated, analytical wife, Annabella, from her sickly childhood to her untimely death at age thirty-six. What emerges is a compelling portrait of a woman who overcame Victorian conve.
9781680488135
Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852 --Juvenile literature.
Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852.
Women mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians.
Electronic Books.
QA29 / .A335 2018
Ada Lovelace : mathematician and first programmer / Kristi Lew. - New York : Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services, (c)2018. - 1 online resource - Britannica beginner bios .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Ch. 1. Who was Ada Lovelace? -- chapter 2. A young mathematician -- chapter 3. Studying machines -- chapter 4. Reason meets imagination -- chapter 5. Remembering Ada.
Nearly one hundred years before the advent of the computer age, Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, published the first set of instructions intended to extract data from a machine. This accessible, engaging biography will introduce readers to the mathematician who is considered by many to be the world's first computer programmer. Readers follow Lovelace, the daughter of renowned romantic poet Lord Byron and his highly educated, analytical wife, Annabella, from her sickly childhood to her untimely death at age thirty-six. What emerges is a compelling portrait of a woman who overcame Victorian conve.
9781680488135
Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852 --Juvenile literature.
Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852.
Women mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians.
Electronic Books.
QA29 / .A335 2018