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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Padua Sydney
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Type : Books
SKU: VV1484802
ISBN: 9780141981536
Pages: 320
Cover: Paperback
Year: 2016
Publisher: Penguin (Penguin)
Your Price: $186.40
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Краткая аннотация:
Аннотация к книге "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer" In The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious set of adventures Meet two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses... Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron: mathematician, gambler, and proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. And Charles Babbage, eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer, if he had ever finished it. But what if things had been different? The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a delightful alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and use it to create runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wider realms of mathematics and, of course, fight crime - for the sake of both... |
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