The Story of Ada Lovelace: The Mathematical Genius (Great Victorians)

Product Description Daughter of the famous romantic poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words. Lady Byron wanted Ada to be as unlike her father as possible. Ada grew up surrounded by an army of tutors who taught her every subject every waking moment, except for poetry. In 1843 Ada came to the attention of Charles Babbage, a scientist and inventor who had just built a miraculous machine called the 'Difference Engine'. Ada and Mr Babbage started working together - a perfect partnership which led to the most important invention of the modern world: the computer! Review "An extraordinarily readable and compact biography of the Victorian mathematical genius Ada Lovelace..." --BfK No.140, SU, May 2003 "Never has a gap in the market been wider. These are exactly what children traditionally love to read." --Evening Standard, Gill Hornby "Remarkably informative and lots of fun, these excellent little books pack a big punch." --Philip Ardagh Book Description Daughter of the famous romantic poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words. A hundred years before the dawn of digital technology, Ada was working out how to build a machine that could operate like a human mind, this machine is what we now call the computer! From the Back Cover Daughter of the famous romantic poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words. A hundred years before the dawn of digital technology, Ada was working out how to build a machine that could operate like a human mind, this machine is what we now call the computer! About the Author Lucy Lethbridge has written for a number of publications and is also the author of several non-fiction books for children and adults. She lives in London.