{"product_id":"2940170473243","title":"Enchantress of Numbers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the fascinating life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelaceamp;mdash;Lord Byron's daughter, the world's first computer programmer, and a woman whose exceptional contributions to science and technology have been too long unsung.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously \"mad, bad, and dangerous to know\", Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science. Any troubling spark of imaginationamp;mdash;or, worse yet, passion or poetryamp;mdash;is promptly extinguished. Or so her mother believes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Ada is introduced into London society as a highly eligible young heiress, she at last discovers the intellectual and social circles she has craved all her life. Little does she realize that her delightful new friendship with inventor Charles Babbageamp;mdash;brilliant, charming, and occasionally curmudgeonly - will shape her destiny. Intrigued by the prototype of his first calculating machine, the Difference Engine, and enthralled by the plans for his even more advanced Analytical Engine, Ada resolves to help Babbage realize his extraordinary vision, unique in her understanding of how his invention could transform the world. All the while, she passionately studies mathematicsamp;mdash;ignoring skeptics who consider it an unusual, even unhealthy pursuit for a womanamp;mdash;falls in love, discovers the shocking secrets behind her parents' estrangement, and comes to terms with the unquenchable fire of her imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Enchantress of Numbers, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini unveils the passions, dreams, and insatiable thirst for knowledge of a largely unheralded pioneer in computingamp;mdash;a young woman who stepped out of her father's shadow to achieve her own laurels and champion the new technology that would shape the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102466916592,"sku":"2940170473243","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170473243_p0.jpg?v=1763807495","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170473243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}