Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer The

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'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...

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141981536
Published: August 2016

Number of pages: 320
Width: 170 mm
Height: 230 mm
Depth: 26 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd