Sydney Padua

My new favourite book. It has everything. Byron, maths, imaginary computers, emotion - Matt Haig 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. And Charles Babbage, eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been...