The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

A$27 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books · No longer available

'My new favourite book. It has everything. Byron, maths, imaginary computers, emotion' - Matt Haig Meet two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses... Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron- mathematician, gambler, and proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory. And Charles Babbage, eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer...

• Binding: Hardcover

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