Enchantress of NumbersEnchantress of Numbers
a Novel of Ada Lovelace
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Book, 2017
Current format, Book, 2017, , Available .The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science. Any troubling spark of imagination or worse yet, passion or poetry is promptly extinguished. Or so her mother believes. When Ada is introduced into London society as a highly eligible young heiress, she at last discovers the intellectual and social circles she has craved all her life. Little does she realize that her delightful new friendship with inventor Charles Babbage brilliant, charming, and occasionally curmudgeonly will shape her destiny.
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- New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017], ©2017
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