TY - BOOK AU - Essinger,James TI - Ada's Algorithm : How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched The Digital Age Through The Poetry of Numbers SN - 9781783340712 U1 - 510.92 LOV PY - 2017/// CY - England PB - Gibson Square KW - Lovelace, Ada King KW - Mathematicians KW - Great Britain KW - Computers KW - History KW - 19th century N2 - Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting among women and Ada became the world's first computer programmer. But for her era's view on gender, Ada would single-handedly have started the digital age more than two centuries ago ER -