Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician known for her notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

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Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was an English mathematician. In 1843 she translated an Italian engineer's paper on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine into English and added notes longer than the original text.

Her notes describe a procedure for computing Bernoulli numbers on the machine, often cited as the first computer program. She also suggested that such a machine could work with symbols and music, not only numbers, which makes her a frequent reference in the history of computing.

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1830s and 1840s: Ada Lovelace translated a 120-page work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and added 470 pages of her own notes, asking whether such a mach…


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