The Bride of Science

By Benjamin Woolley

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

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.