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New York Times best-selling creator Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the fascinating life of Ada Byron Ruler, Countess of Lovelace - Lord Byron's princess, the world's first computer programmer, and a woman whose exceptional contributions to technology and technology have been too much time unsung. The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most fantastic, revered, and scandalous of the Intimate poets, Ada was destined for popularity long before her delivery. Estranged from Ada's daddy, who was simply infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know", Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron history. Banishing fairy stories and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her princess with a strenuous education grounded in mathematics and technology. Any troubling spark of creativeness - or, worse yet, interest or poetry - is rapidly extinguished. Or so her mother is convinced. When Ada is unveiled into London culture as an extremely qualified young heiress, she at last discovers the intellectual and interpersonal circles she's craved all her life. Little does she recognize that her wonderful new friendship with inventor Charles Babbage - fantastic, charming, and sometimes curmudgeonly - will condition her future. Intrigued by the prototype of his first calculating machine, the Difference Engine motor, and enthralled by the plans for his even more complex Analytical Engine motor, Ada resolves to help Babbage realize his outstanding perspective, unique in her understanding of how his technology could transform the earth. Even while, she passionately studies mathematics - ignoring skeptics who consider it an unusual, even unhealthy pursuit for a woman - falls in love, discovers the surprising secrets behind her parents' estrangement, and comes to terms with the unquenchable flame of her creativeness. In Enchantress of Quantities, New York Times best-selling creator Jennifer Chiaverini unveils the passions, dreams, and insatiable thirst for knowledge of a mainly unheralded pioneer in computing - a young female who stepped out of her father's shadow to attain her own laurels and champ the new technology that would shape the near future.
