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Philip Ardagh
"Remarkably informative and lots of fun, these excellent little books pack a big punch."
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BfK No.140, SU, May 2003
"An extraordinarily readable and compact biography of the Victorian mathematical genius Ada Lovelace..."
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I am a primary school teacher and I bought this book mainly for my own information as I like to learn how Victorian women helped to give me the life I lead today. I found it really interesting and read it in an afternoon.As I found it so interesting I asked one of my pupils to read it. She is 11 yrs and with excellent computer skills. This girl read it over 2 days(allowing time for homework)and said it was interesting in two ways. First of all how the computer was invented and how life was different then. My pupil did not believe anyone could have SUCH an interest in maths.
This book is a well deserved Blue Peter prize winner and child historians or number buffs MUST read it.
This book is a well deserved Blue Peter prize winner and child historians or number buffs MUST read it.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Perhaps it should have been obvious from the previous review, but I think it's still worrth pointing out to potential buyers: this book is a thin, fairly large print book for children or young teenagers.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
The PC princess - makes a great gift
15 Nov 2001
Format:Paperback
This is actually a childrens book but represents the sort of style a modern book could have. A short digest about something you never knew before.
Would you believe that an eccentric English girl could have been drilled in maths enough to enjoy it? That she could work for hours on making a flying machine when such things were unheard of? That she could understand the abstruse principles of a mechanincal calculating machine, enough to translate an Italian work about it working hard like a robot?
She had beauty, brains and breeding, and was an aristocrat. There was only one and only Ada. A true heroine. Where did they make them?
Carefully packaged in a neat small volume taking 15-20 minutes to eat up in one gripping and moving read.
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