Charles and Ada: the computer’s most passionate partnership by James Essinger
Charles
and Ada: the computer’s most passionate partnership
The partnership of Charles Babbage
and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever.
They were an unlikely pair – one
the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet
and a social-reforming mathematician – but perhaps that is why their work is so
revolutionary.
They were the pioneers of computer
science, creating plans for what could have been the first computer. They each
saw things the other did not; it may have been Charles who designed the
machines, but it was Ada who could see their potential.
But what were they like? And how
did they work together? Using previously unpublished correspondence between
them , Charles and Ada explores the
relationship between two remarkable people who shared dreams far ahead of their
time.
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Author
Bio – James
Essinger was born in Leicester in 1957 and has lived in Canterbury in Kent
since 1986. He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Leicester,
and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read English Language and Literature.
He spent much of his time between 1981 and 1983 teaching English in Finland
before working in public relations in London and then in Canterbury. Since
1988, James has been a professional writer.
His non-fiction books include Jacquard's Web (2004), Ada’s Algorithm (2013), which is to be
filmed by Monumental Pictures, and Charles and Ada: the computer’s most
passionate partnership (2019) His
novels include The Mating Game (2016)
with Jovanka Houska, the film rights of which have been optioned, Rollercoaster (2019) and The Ada Lovelace Project (forthcoming in
2020).
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