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Ada Lovelace

Name: Ada Lovelace
ISBN: 9781912904648

By Nick Pierce

Could Ada’s wild ideas and mysterious machine unlock the future of computing?

informative accessible visual inspiring

Genres

Non-fiction Biography History

What is Ada Lovelace about?

Meet Ada Lovelace, the mathematician whose imagination helped shape the future of computing. Growing up in nineteenth-century England, Ada loved numbers, patterns and ideas. While working with Charles Babbage’s mechanical calculating machine, she wrote what is often considered the first computer programme. Through lively text, illustrations, photographs, timelines and maps, this accessible biography explores Ada’s remarkable life, her groundbreaking ideas and the lasting legacy of the woman known as the “enchantress of numbers”.

Pages

32 pages

Reading age

Early Reader (5-8)

This edition

2020

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