Ada and the Engine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ada and the Engine write by Lauren Gunderson. This book was released on 2018-06-18. Ada and the Engine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the British Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace (daughter of the flamboyant and notorious Lord Byron) sees the boundless creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul mate Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Ada envisions a whole new world where art and information converge—a world she might not live to see. A music-laced story of love, friendship, and the edgiest dreams of the future. Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age.
The Difference Engine
The Difference Engine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Difference Engine write by William Gibson. This book was released on 2011-07-26. The Difference Engine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history—and the future: Sybil Gerard—a fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator Edward “Leviathan” Mallory—explorer and paleontologist Laurence Oliphant—diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for…. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the collaborative masterpiece by two of the most acclaimed science fiction authors writing today. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson’s and Sterling’s unique visions—and the beginning of movement we know today as “steampunk!”
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ada Lovelace write by Christopher Hollings. This book was released on 2018. Ada Lovelace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Ada, Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, is sometimes referred to as the world's first computer programmer. But how did a young woman in the nineteenth century without a formal education become a pioneer of computer science? Drawing on previously unpublished archival material, including a remarkable correspondence course with eminent mathematician Augustus De Morgan, this book explores Ada Lovelace's development from her precocious childhood into a gifted, perceptive and knowledgeable mathematician who, alongside Mary Somerville, Michael Faraday and Charles Dickens, became part of Victorian London's social and scientific elite. Featuring images of the 'first programme' together with mathematical models and contemporary illustrations, the authors show how, despite her relatively short life and with astonishing prescience, Ada Lovelace explored key mathematical questions to understand the principles behind modern computing."--Page 4 de la couverture.
A New Kind of Science
A New Kind of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New Kind of Science write by Stephen Wolfram. This book was released on 2002. A New Kind of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments---illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics---Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe. Wolfram uses his approach to tackle a remarkable array of fundamental problems in science: from the origin of the Second Law of thermodynamics, to the development of complexity in biology, the computational limitations of mathematics, the possibility of a truly fundamental theory of physics, and the interplay between free will and determinism.
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine write by Laurie Wallmark. This book was released on 2015. Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
