Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008721, Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:28:05 -0700

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Subject: Lady Lovelace reference available to Nabokov


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> I misplaced Mary's post but . . .
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> Andrew Hodges' biography of Alan Turing, _The Enigma_ (1983), makes
> reference to _Faster than Thought_ ,ed. B.V. Bowden (Pitman, 1953).
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> Hodges calls this book the definitive account of British computers as
> they stood in 1951-2. It contains the whole of Lady Lovelaces's memoir
> on the Analytic Engine.
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