The bride of science

Description:

Benjamin Woolley explores Ada Lovelace's life. He offers a fascinating insight into how Ada personified the changing times during the first half of the 19th century. Wooley shows Ada's struggle to reconcile the Romanticism embodied by her father, the famed poet Lord Byron, and a childhood of Mathematics and Science.

subjects: Aristocracy (Social class),  Biography,  Computers and women,  Descendents,  History,  Women mathematicians,  Biographies,  Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852.,  Mathematicians, biography,  Great britain, biography,  Mathematicians,  Women computer programmers,  Computers,  Social change

People: Ada King Lovelace Countess of (1815-1852),  George Gordon Byron Byron Baron (1788-1824)

Places: England,  Great Britain

Times: 19th century