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"A Life Less Ordinary": Review of The Bride of Science, by Benjamin Woolley. Reviewed by Roy Herbert. New Scientist, 8 January 2000, page 40.
The Bride of Scienceprovides a colorful and rich description of the life of Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and friend to mathematician Charles Babbage. The book recounts Lady Lovelace's participation in Victorian intellectual society, including her involvement in promoting Babbage's Analytical Engine, a precursor to the computer. Lovelace's written description of the operation of this revolutionary machine is considered to be the first computer program.
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