So impossibly funny, clever, demented, charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know, regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff Lucy Mangan, Stylist Books of the YearAn eyeopener... The more I think about this, the higher I esteem it Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Books of the YearWinner of the British Book Design and Production Award for Graphic NovelsWinner of the Neumann Prize in the History of MathematicsNominated for the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album and Best Writer/ArtistIn The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious set of adventures Meet two of Victorian Londons greatest geniuses... Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron mathematician, gambler, and protoprogrammer, whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. And Charles Babbage, eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer, if he had ever finished it.But what if things had been different? The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a delightful alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and use it to create runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wider realms of mathematics and, of course,...

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FXL; Weight: 884 g; Dimensions: 232 x 166 x 24

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