Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage |
| author | Sydney Padua |
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| ISBN-13 | 978-0-141-98153-6 |
| ASIN | 0141981539 |
| rating | |
| date | 2021-Aug-06 |
It is rather difficult to give one rating to this book. The book is funny, entertaining and at the same time full of obviously very well researched facts. On the downside are the lacking legibility of the font used for the footnotes, the fact that most information actually is in the (very copious) footnotes and the difficulty to make up your mind whether to read the comic first and then the footnotes or vice versa or both page by page.
The two main characters in this facts-based book are Charles Babbage, the first person to invent a machine resembling a general-purpose computer and Ada Lovelace, the first person to code something like computer instructions, alas the first programmer. Some other characters appear too, such as George Boole (do "boolean operators" ring a bell?).
A mostly facts-based fun book for mathematicians and computer people.
