Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of ADA Lovelace

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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of LovelaceLord Byron's daughter and the world's first computer progammer.

The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. But her mathematician mother, estranged from Ada's infamous and destructively passionate father, is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Adas mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science. Any troubling spark of imaginationor worse yet, passion or poetryis promptly extinguished. Or so her mother believes.

When Ada is introduced into London society as a highly eligible young heiress, she at last discovers the intellectual and social circles she has craved all her life. Little does she realize how her exciting new friendship with Charles Babbagethe brilliant, charming, and occasionally curmudgeonly inventor of an extraordinary machine, the Difference Enginewill define her destiny.

Enchantress of Numbers unveils the passions, dreams, and insatiable thirst for knowledge of a largely unheralded pioneer in computinga young woman who stepped out of her fathers shadow to achieve her own laurels and champion the new technology that would shape the future.