Ada Lovelace, Ben Jeapes
Ada Lovelace, Ben Jeapes
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Ada Lovelace

Author: Ben Jeapes

Narrator: Marietta DePrima

Unabridged: 2 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2020

Synopsis

Before she was a famous mathematician and the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace (18151852) was the daughter of well-known poet Lord Byron. When he died, Ada was still very young, and her mother encouraged her interest in mathematics in an attempt to prevent her from turning into a melancholy poet like her father. As an adult, she married a count and, as countess, was given access to some of Englands greatest scientists and authors, including Charles Babbage, who was working to develop an analytical engine. Seeing the potential in computers, Ada partnered with Charles and used her mathematical skills to create an algorithm that could make such a machine possible. Fascinating and lively, Ada Lovelace tells the story of the woman who helped pioneer computing.

About Ben Jeapes

Ben Jeapes is a children’s book author who also runs his own independent science-fiction publishing house based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christy on March 20, 2023

Ada Lovelace is regarded as the world's first computer programmer - never mind she was a female born in 1815. As the daughter of an educated, religious mother and Lord Byron the infamous poet, she seemed to truly exemplify her inherited biology, 'She had a fervent imagination, and it was this that w......more

Goodreads review by Lady Clementina on March 23, 2023

My thanks to Pen & Sword for a review copy of this book via NetGalley. I first heard or rather read Ada Lovelace’s name way back in class V, where our introductory textbook on computers talked of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine (with I think a diagram of the machine) and of Lady Ada Lovelace who......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on March 05, 2023

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Goodreads review by Sean Watts on March 18, 2023

The author states in the introduction that she is a huge Lord Byron fan and this is quite evident throughout the book. The first 20 % of the book is a history of the Byron family in general and Lord Byron in particular, whilst some background on the Byron family is useful (particularly in reference......more

Goodreads review by CPE on March 14, 2023

Beverley Adams’ book, Ada Lovelace : The World’s First Computer Programmer, is about one of the most advanced women of the nineteenth century. Ada, the daughter of the poet Byron, was brought up by her mother, Annabella. Annabella left Byron when Ada was only four weeks old and Ada never saw her fat......more

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