| The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage |
| Tuesday, 21 April 2015 | |||
Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious set of adventures. Meet Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron: mathematician, gambler, and proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theoryand Charles Babbage, eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer, if he had ever finished it. But what if things had been different? In this alternate reality Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and use it to create runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wider realms of mathematics and fight crime - for the sake of both London and science. Author: Sydney Padua Kindle: B00VL0NME4 Visit Book Watch Archive for hundreds more titles. See What if Babbage..? for Mike James musings on the same topic. Follow @bookwatchiprog on Twitter or subscribe to I Programmer's Books RSS feed for each day's new addition to Book Watch and for new reviews. To have new titles included in Book Watch contact BookWatch@i-programmer.info 
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