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Ada Lovelace
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.
— Notes on the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage (1843)
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
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Lived 1815–1852, aged 37
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She saw what the machine's inventor didn't: that a calculating engine could do more than crunch numbers. In 1843, Ada Lovelace published notes on Charles Babbage's unbuilt analytical engine that included what's now recognized as the first computer program—and the first argument that such machines might one day manipulate symbols, not just sums.
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Augusta Ada Byron was born 10 December 1815, Lord Byron's only legitimate child; her father left a month later and died when she was eight. Raised by her mother Anne Isabella Milbanke, she studied mathematics despite frequent childhood illness. At eighteen she met Charles Babbage at one of his Saturday soirées in June 1833, beginning a working friendship that would define her legacy. She married William King in 1835; when he became Earl of Lovelace in 1838, she became Countess. Lovelace translated Luigi Menabrea's article on Babbage's analytical engine and added seven notes longer than the ori…
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Ada Lovelace
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
— Scientific Memoirs edited by Richard Taylor (1781-1858), Volume 3, Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq, Notes
Ada Lovelace
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Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
— In a letter to Andrew Crosse, as quoted in Eugen Kölbing's Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter",
Ada Lovelace
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Circumstances have been such, that I have lived almost entirely secluded for some time.
— In a letter to Andrew Crosse, as quoted in Eugen Kölbing's Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter",
Ada Lovelace
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Perhaps you have felt already, from the tone of my letter, that I am more than ever now the bride of science. Religion to me is science, and science is religion.
— Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 157-158.
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