TY - BOOK AU - Lew,Kristi TI - Ada Lovelace: mathematician and first programmer T2 - Britannica beginner bios SN - 9781680488135 AV - QA29 .A335 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services KW - Lovelace, Ada King, KW - Women mathematicians KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Mathematicians KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Ch. 1. Who was Ada Lovelace? --; chapter 2. A young mathematician --; chapter 3. Studying machines --; chapter 4. Reason meets imagination --; chapter 5. Remembering Ada; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1638724&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -