2008-01-13

 

Enchantress of Numbers

"Enchantress of Numbers" joins the growing list of titles in my fake paperback series.
The actual term "The Enchantress of Numbers" is from an epigram the mathematician Charles Babbage wrote for Ada Byron. Babbage had designed a primordial mechanical computer, for which she eagerly foresaw the potential.

Ada Byron became the first computer programmer in human history. Her left-brain prowess was cultivated in no small part as a reaction against her father, Lord Byron's, right-brain excesses.

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