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Ada Lovelace

Also Known As Augusta Ada Byron · Enchantress of Numbers
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English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. In 1843 she published an extensive set of notes on the machine, translated and annotated from an Italian memoir, in which Note G describes a method for the engine to compute Bernoulli numbers: an algorithm now recognized as the first published, machine-executable program, written before any such machine had been built. She also anticipated that a machine acting on symbols rather than mere numbers could compose music or manipulate any content expressible in formal rules, a leap beyond Babbage's own conception of the Engine as a calculator. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1815-12-10 1
Birth Year
1815 1
Death Date
1852-11-27 1
Death Year
1852 1
Birthplace
London, England 1
Death Place
Marylebone, London, England 1
Nationality / Culture
English 1
Defining Contribution
Wrote, in her 1843 Notes on the Analytical Engine, an algorithm for computing Bernoulli numbers on Babbage's proposed machine, generally recognized as the first algorithm published for execution by a machine; also articulated, ahead of Babbage himself, that a symbol-manipulating engine could act on more than numbers. 1
Notable Work
Notes on the Analytical Engine (1843), especially Note G, containing the Bernoulli-number algorithm 1
Biography
Gender
Female 1
Connections

Associated With

Algorithm, Concepts

Author of the first algorithm published for execution by a machine (Note G, 1843).

Source Ada Lovelace (Wikipedia)

In Branch

Applied and Computational Mathematics, Branches of Mathematics

Her work is computational rather than in a classical pure-mathematics branch: an algorithm for a proposed calculating machine.

Source Ada Lovelace (Wikipedia)
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Nationality

United Kingdom

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Source Ada Lovelace (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2
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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
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1. Ada Lovelace (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section
    Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 - 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
  • infobox
    10 December 1815 - 27 November 1852
  • infobox, birth name
    Augusta Ada Byron
  • Work
    He called her "The Enchantress of Number".
  • Lead section, gender reference
    She was the first to recognise the machine had applications beyond pure calculation.
  • In Category: Mathematicians
  • In Branch: Applied and Computational Mathematics
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