Ada
By
Dorothy Stein
Dorothy Stein
1987 • 321 pages

Uses excerpts from letters, memoirs, and documents to recreate the life of Ada Byron, daughter of the English poet, and discusses her contributions to mathematics and her friendships with the leading mathematicians of the period

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