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Will you concede me Poetical Science?

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Ada Lovelace had a broad interest in the science and technologies of the day and explored post-Romantic ideas which made a significant link between science and poetry. In this talk Richard Holmes looks at some of these surprising connections.

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Series
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
People
Richard Holmes
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 01:00:07

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