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Enchantress of Numbers

De: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrado por: Virginia Leishman
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New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the fascinating life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace - Lord Byron's daughter, the world's first computer programmer, and a woman whose exceptional contributions to science and technology have been too long unsung.

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. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know", Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science. Any troubling spark of imagination - or, worse yet, passion or poetry - is 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 that her delightful new friendship with inventor Charles Babbage - brilliant, charming, and occasionally curmudgeonly - will shape her destiny. Intrigued by the prototype of his first calculating machine, the Difference Engine, and enthralled by the plans for his even more advanced Analytical Engine, Ada resolves to help Babbage realize his extraordinary vision, unique in her understanding of how his invention could transform the world. All the while, she passionately studies mathematics - ignoring skeptics who consider it an unusual, even unhealthy pursuit for a woman - falls in love, discovers the shocking secrets behind her parents' estrangement, and comes to terms with the unquenchable fire of her imagination.

In Enchantress of Numbers, New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini unveils the passions, dreams, and insatiable thirst for knowledge of a largely unheralded pioneer in computing - a young woman who stepped out of her father's shadow to achieve her own laurels and champion the new technology that would shape the future.

©2017 Jennifer Chiaverini (P)2017 Recorded Books
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Interesting Woman

I am amazed at this woman's life and what she accomplished . When you think of computers and how we analyze things, she was a forerunner of computer analytics today.

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Interesting Woman

I enjoyed this book and admired the subject for wanting to live her own life.

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So Good

Absolutely loved this book! Knew nothing of Ada Lovelace, and enjoyed this book so much. Another fabulous book by Jennifer Chiaverini!

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Sins of the father

Lady Byron acted out her humiliation by Lord Byron upon her daughter. I struggled with listening, wanted to stop in disgust. Both Ada's parents were miserable people. This story is a biting satire of Lord Byron and of the English aristocracy of the period. My least favorite book by this author.

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An amazing women

Found the Character of Ada Lovelace on "Victoria" and looked her up. She had a very interesting life that is worth reading about.

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INFORMATIVE BACKGROUND LISTENING

If you have an interest in history, especially pertaining to computers and the poetry of Lord Byron, (An odd combination, I know.) then you will find this work interesting, or maybe even intriguing, though not truly entertaining. This is more a semi-nonfiction biography than an exciting fictional novel to lose yourself in.

I gave it three stars across the board mainly because it was not the engrossing historical fiction I had hoped for. Instead it is gentle retelling (with necessary fictional license) of the life of Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron and the woman sometimes credited with constructing the first computer program - though in 1840 computers had not yet been invented. What she really did was devise an algorithm of such complexity that it could be viewed as a program. Her life was surprisingly complicated. First because she was the only legitimate daughter of the renown poet, Lord Byron, and secondly because she was far beyond her contemporaries (women or men) in the areas of intellect and expression.

The inclusion of Lady Lovelace's interactions with such prominent historical figures as Charles Babbage, Mary Somerville and Charles Dickens offered a new and interesting perspective on her life and underscored the strong waves of change that were sweeping through Britain on the verge of the Industrial Revolution. All in all, I did enjoy the narrative and it spurred me to do some additional research on the topics presented.

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Not my bag, but entertaining and educational

Decent historical fiction. Well researched, well performed. The writing style didn't grab me, but that's more on me than the author.

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Excellent Historical Novel

Simply loved learning about this somewhat forgotten, early "computer" scientist. Sadly tragic in so many ways, but told with great thought and feeling. Highly recommend.

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Enchanted story to an incredible woman

I wish there had been less about mum and more about the invention and her contributions to Mathematics.

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Totally engrossing about a woman I admire

I’m a (female) mathematician myself, so I’ve been an admirer of Ada Lovelace for a long time, and found this presentation of her life to be fascinating and engrossing. I would have liked the author’s note to contain some information on how much is factual and how much is embellishment (or imaginings). I know many of the facts, but not everything. But the period detail definitely adds to the atmosphere, even if some of it is imagined, based on what is known of the period and class. Talking about class, it is, of course, quite a formative aspect of her life to be part of the upper class. It certainly isn’t all roses, but it is highly unlikely that she would have had a fraction of the education she received if she were not. The narrator did a superb job and even though I first thought the book might be kind of long, I was so engrossed that it flew by. Excellent book!

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