エイダ・バイロン伝<br>The Bride of Science : Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter

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エイダ・バイロン伝
The Bride of Science : Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 416 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780071373296
  • DDC分類 B

基本説明

詩人バイロンの娘、チャールズ・バベッジの友人、そして米国防総省が中心となって開発されたコンピュータ言語’エイダ’の名の由来である人類最初のプログラマーの伝記。
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. This critically acclaimed biography portrays Ada Byron's life as the embodiment of the schism between the worlds of Romanticism and scientific rationalism.

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Lady Lovelace, Ada Byron, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, wrote a plan to use Charles Babbage's "thinking machine" to calculate Bernoulli numbers and to many she is considered to be the world's first computer programmer. Her attempts to reconcile the world of Romanticism and the world of science and machines, to create a "poetical science" helped her to produce a remarkable career in the Victorian age. This biography offers a look at her life in maths and science and analyzes the death of Romanticism and the birth of the machine age.

Contents

A Thing of Dark Imaginings. Wanting One Sweet Weakness. Man's Dangerous Asset. The Devil's Drawing Room. A Deep Romantic Chasm. The Deformed Transformed. A Completely Professional Person. The Death of Romance. Clinging to a Phantom. Beyond the Shallow Senses. Epilogue. Notes and Further Reading. Select Bibliography. Index.NER(01): WOW