The Thrilling Adventures Of Lovelace And Babbage

Author : Sydney Padua
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307908275
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage written by Sydney Padua and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures. Meet Victorian London’s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. When Lovelace translated a description of Babbage’s plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, she added annotations three times longer than the original work. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. Sadly, Lovelace died of cancer a decade after publishing the paper, and Babbage never built any of his machines. But do not despair! The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a rollicking alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and then use it to build runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wilder realms of mathematics, and, of course, fight crime—for the sake of both London and science. Complete with extensive footnotes that rival those penned by Lovelace herself, historical curiosities, and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage’s mechanical, steam-powered computer, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is wonderfully whimsical, utterly unusual, and, above all, entirely irresistible. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101985216
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchantress of Numbers written by Jennifer Chiaverini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Cherished Reader, Should you come upon Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini...consider yourself quite fortunate indeed....Chiaverini makes a convincing case that Ada Byron King is a woman worth celebrating.”—USA Today The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Switchboard Soldiers illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace—Lord Byron's daughter and the world's first computer programmer. 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. But her mathematician mother, estranged from Ada's infamous and destructively passionate father, 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 how her exciting new friendship with Charles Babbage—the brilliant, charming, and occasionally curmudgeonly inventor of an extraordinary machine, the Difference Engine—will define her destiny. Enchantress of Numbers unveils the passions, dreams, and insatiable thirst for knowledge of a largely unheralded pioneer in computing—a young woman who stepped out of her father’s shadow to achieve her own laurels and champion the new technology that would shape the future.

Author : George Johnson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307424510
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shortcut Through Time written by George Johnson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable of almost unimaginable calculations in the blink of an eye. As computer chips continue to shrink in size, scientists anticipate the end of the road: A computer in which each switch is comprised of a single atom. Such a device would operate under a different set of physical laws: The laws of quantum mechanics. Johnson gently leads the curious outsider through the surprisingly simple ideas needed to understand this dream, discussing the current state of the revolution, and ultimately assessing the awesome power these machines could have to change our world.

Author : Philip Reeve
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1619631180
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Larklight written by Philip Reeve and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the Moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is entirely the wrong sort of preparation, as they discover when their guest arrives, and a Dreadful and Terrifying (and Marvellous) adventure begins. It takes them to the furthest reaches of Known Space, where they must battle the evil First Ones in a desperate attempt to save each other - and the Universe. Recounted through the eyes of Art himself, Larklight is sumptuously designed and illustrated throughout.

Author : Patrick Rosenkranz
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606991701
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artist Himself written by Patrick Rosenkranz and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rand Holmes’ life story is richly illustrated with drawings, comic strips, watercolors, and paintings that span his whole career, from the hot rod cartoons he drew as a teenager, dozens of covers for the Georgia Straight, pornographic cartoons for the sex tabloid Vancouver Star, to complete comic stories from Slow Death Funnies, Dope Comix, All Canadian Beaver, Death Rattle, Grateful Dead Comix, and many more. The full-length Harold Hedd comic novels, Wings Over Tijuana and Hitler’s Cocaine are reprinted in their entirety together for the first time. This unique collection of art documents a lifetime of work by one of the most talented artists of his generation.

Author : Christopher Hollings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851244881
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ada Lovelace written by Christopher Hollings and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ada, Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, is sometimes referred to as the world's first computer programmer. But how did a young woman in the nineteenth century without a formal education become a pioneer of computer science? Drawing on previously unpublished archival material, including a remarkable correspondence course with eminent mathematician Augustus De Morgan, this book explores Ada Lovelace's development from her precocious childhood into a gifted, perceptive and knowledgeable mathematician who, alongside Mary Somerville, Michael Faraday and Charles Dickens, became part of Victorian London's social and scientific elite. Featuring images of the 'first programme' together with mathematical models and contemporary illustrations, the authors show how, despite her relatively short life and with astonishing prescience, Ada Lovelace explored key mathematical questions to understand the principles behind modern computing."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Author : Carolyn Tytor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781093620658
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Whiteshawl written by Carolyn Tytor and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolyn invites the reader to join Whiteshawl and her feline friend Mau Mau as they partake in various spiritualadventures with friends and family. Each story is accompanied by a beautiful piece of visual art or photography.

Author : Brad Faber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943706211
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Octagon John Goes to Mars written by Brad Faber and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octagon John and his dog, Ron, love science and going on adventures. And wouldn't you know it, their pal, Smergo, an Elf-leprechaun, needs their help on an urgent mission: Rescuing Smergo's wife Shirly on Mars! There's only one problem, though. They need to make it back in three days for Smergo's 500th birthday party. So strap in as the guys head to the fourth planet from the Sun for an epic quest in Octagon John Goes to Mars.

Author : Kirk Battle
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781482321081
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Lawyer written by Kirk Battle and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where women are in power and men are struggling to find a new identity, apprentice space lawyer Lane is about to find out that change has a heavy price. A utopian world so perfect that the government knows where you are and what you are doing every minute, one of his clients has gone missing. Now it's Lane's job to find her. Caught in a hostile landscape of male alliances and powerful matriarchs, the line between the virtual and the real is becoming harder and harder to identify as Lane's world is turned upside down. When he discovers that his client is involved with a faster than light (FTL) travel device, he opens a Pandora's box of conflicting, hidden agendas. As the case becomes more confusing and reality begins to mirror the virtual world, the future hangs in the balance as Lane fights to solve the mystery and prove his worth as a true space lawyer.

Author : Sydney Padua
Publisher : Particular Books
ISBN 13 : 9780141981536
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage written by Sydney Padua and published by Particular Books. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: