Charles and Ada: The Computer’s Most Passionate Partnership
by James Essinger
Synopsis:
The partnership of Charles Babbage and
Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever.
They were an
unlikely pair – one the professor son of a banker, the other the
only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician
– but perhaps that is why their work is so revolutionary.
They were the pioneers of computer
science, creating plans for what could have been the first computer.
They each saw things the other did not; it may have been Charles who
designed the machines, but it was Ada who could see their potential.
But what were they like? And how did
they work together? Using previously unpublished correspondence
between them , Charles and Ada explores the relationship
between two remarkable people who shared dreams far ahead of their
time.
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Author Bio
James Essinger
was born in Leicester in 1957 and has lived in Canterbury in Kent
since 1986. He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys,
Leicester, and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read English
Language and Literature. He spent much of his time between 1981 and
1983 teaching English in Finland before working in public relations
in London and then in Canterbury. Since 1988, James has been a
professional writer.
His non-fiction books include
Jacquard's Web (2004), Ada’s Algorithm (2013), which
is to be filmed by Monumental Pictures, and Charles and
Ada: the computer’s most passionate partnership (2019) His
novels include The Mating Game (2016) with Jovanka Houska, the
film rights of which have been optioned, Rollercoaster (2019)
and The Ada Lovelace Project (forthcoming in 2020).
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Ada Lovelace was a very interesting woman. I read a historical fiction book about her - The Enchantress of Numbers.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds interesting. I'll have to look it up.
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