Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

So impossibly funny clever demented charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff Lucy Mangan Stylist Books of the Year'An eye-opener... The more I think about this the higher I esteem it' - Nicholas Lezard Guardian Books of the Year*Winner of the British Book Design and Production Award for Graphic Novels**Winner of the Neumann Prize in the History of Mathematics**Nominated for the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album and Best Writer/Artist*In The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious set of adventures Meet two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses... Ada Lovelace daughter of Lord Byron mathematician gambler and proto-programmer whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory a hundred years before an actual computer was built. And Charles Babbage eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer if he had ever finished it.But what if things had been different? The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a delightful alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and use it to create runaway economic models battle the scourge of spelling errors explore the wider realms of mathematics and of course fight crime - for the sake of both London and science. Extremely funny and utterly unusual The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage comes complete with historical curiosities extensive footnotes and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage's mechanical steam-powered computer. And ray guns.|Sydney Padua is an animator and visual effects artist usually employed in making giant monsters appear to be attacking people for the movies. She started drawing comics by accident with the webcomic 2D Goggles or The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage and is still trying to figure out how to stop. Originally from the Canadian prairie she now lives in London with her husband and far too many books.|So impossibly funny clever demented charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff|An utter joy... Padua has done her research: she has teased out the connections between Babbage Lovelace and what would seem to be the whole of Victorian culture and society - and done so in a way that appears almost effortless on the page her light easy graphic style an excellent vehicle not only for deep and complex thought but for excellent and sometimes excellently corny jokes. This is a book to reread not just read|My new favourite book. It has everything. Byron maths imaginary computers emotion|The book does more than simply celebrate the genius of the first computer programmer it encourages us to turn our imagination to technology - just as Lovelace did. And that's an inspiration to us all|The wittiest best-researched and most original tribute yet paid to the achievements of Ada Lovelace... An astonishing debut... a book that ought to be ordered in triplicate by every school in the land... Ingenious as a textbook marvellous fun as inventive biography|Rich with in-jokes warmth and charm... It's difficult not to be ignited by Sydney Padua's enthusiasm. There is so much to discover that I'll treasure my copy for years to come|A stylish funny graphic novel featuring Ada Lovelace estranged daughter of Lord Byron and co-programmer had it ever been built of the mathematical engine. Playful earnest and beautifully drawn the book cuts a swathe through early computing theory explores Ada's relationship with Charles Babbage and brings to the fore one of the unsung heroines of science|There is no way around this Sydney Padua's Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is bloody brilliant... and educational too|I love it... everyone is getting a copy|Wonderful and genuinely informative... Padua's gorgeous art and very funny text are combined with factual footnotes to create an utterly unique and enormously enjoyable book -|Sydney Padua's smart and sassy steampunk science graphic novel is a delightful mixture of research and invention dressed up in Padua's bouncy cartooning. If nothing else it is one of the best introductions to its real-life heroine proto-computer programmer Ada Lovelace you could wish for. If only all science lessons could be this much fun|Immensely delightful and illuminating... Padua delivers a thoroughly unsynthesizable range of enchantment and elucidation|'So impossibly funny clever demented charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff' Lucy Mangan Stylist Books of the Year'An eye-opener... The more I think about this the higher I esteem it' - Nicholas Lezard Guardian Books of the Year*Winner of the British Book Design and Production Award for Graphic Novels**Winner of the Neumann Prize in the History of Mathematics**Nominated for the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album and Best Writer/Artist*In The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious set of adventures Meet two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses... Ada Lovelace daughter of Lord Byron: mathematician gambler and proto-programmer whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory a hundred years before an actual computer was built. And Charles Babbage eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer if he had ever finished it.But what if things had been different? The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a delightful alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and use it to create runaway economic models battle the scourge of spelling errors explore the wider realms of mathematics and of course fight crime - for the sake of both London and science. Extremely funny and utterly unusual The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage comes complete with historical curiosities extensive footnotes and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage's mechanical steam-powered computer. And ray guns.