TY - BOOK AU - Doherty,Anna TI - Ada Lovelace: the fantastically feminist (and totally true) story of the mathematician extraordinaire SN - 9781526361059 AV - QA 29 .L72 D64 2022 U1 - 510.92 23 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Wren & Rook KW - Lovelace, Ada King, KW - Women in mathematics KW - Juvenile literature KW - fast KW - Juvenile works N1 - Originally published: 2019 N2 - Meet the remarkable Ada Lovelace - rebellious rule-breaker and maths whizz-kid. Growing up in the shadow of her eccentric superstar father, the poet Lord Byron, and under the eye of her strict mother, Ada spends her time inventing and designing flying machines and studying her favourite subject - maths. In Ada's time, girls aren't encouraged to pursue maths, physics or engineering as they're considered not clever enough but Ada doesn't let this stop her. Once she grows up, Ada meets the famous inventor and engineer Charles Babbage, who introduces her to a truly extraordinary machine.-- ER -