Incredible adventures of Lovelyis and Babbiga (Almost) true story of the first computer

About the book

Meet two Victorian geniuses: hell Loveis - mathematics, an avid player, protoproprammist, daughter of Lord Byron, and Charles Babbiga - an eccentric, but unsuccessful inventor.

After reading in 1842 a description of Babbige"s plans for a giant computing machine, Loveis added a comment to this work - they were three times longer than the original text. Her notes contain the first programming ideas - and this is a hundred years before creating a computer! Unfortunately, Lovelyis died of cancer ten years after the publication of her observations, and Babbage never built his car.

But do not despair! "Incredible adventures of Lavelis and Babbiga" are a graphic novel about an alternative universe, where our heroes completed their car. They use it to overcome crazy economic crises, fight with a scourge of spelling errors, explore the limits of mathematics and, of course, fight crime - for the benefit of London and science!

This comic is full of curious historical facts (which are accompanied by references to real documents) and twisted schemes for the device of the Babbiga steam computer. Exciting and extremely unusual fantastic reading.

Book chips

* The book received the Newman Award from the British Society of the History of Mathematics (British Society for the History of Mathematics Neumann Prize) for his contribution to the popularization of science.
* We appreciated the book from an artistic point of view - it received the British Book Design Prize (British Book Design Award).
* This comic is full of jokes about logic, mathematics, programming, history. A rare opportunity to learn a lot while you laugh.
* In terms of the volume of the text, Padua’s comments to historical documents is twice as much as the comic. Sidney did incredible work with historical sources!
* Stanislav Lomakin, a book translator into Russian, in 2016 received the Belyaevsky Prize for the translation of the book of Kip Torne Interstellar.

For whom this book
For everyone who loves funny and smart books.
For everyone who is interested in programming, history, mathematics or logic.
For those who are not indifferent to steampunk.
For comic book lovers