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  2. Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia

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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 her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications ...

  3. Note G - Wikipedia

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    Lovelace's notes for the article were three times longer than the article itself. [17] In the first notes, she explores beyond the numerical ambitions that Babbage had for the machine, and suggests the machine could take advantage of computation in order to deal with the realms of music, graphics, [ 18 ] and language.

  4. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Wikipedia

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    The book received positive early reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. [9] [10]In December 2015 it was announced that, for The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Padua would receive the biennial Neumann Prize of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, [11] which is "awarded for a book in English ... dealing with the history of mathematics and aimed at a ...

  5. Ada Lovelace Day - Wikipedia

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    Cake made to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at a 2013 Edit-a-thon held in Oxford, England. Ada Lovelace Day is an annual event held on the second Tuesday of October to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to STEM fields. It is named after mathematician and computer science pioneer Ada Lovelace. It started in 2009 as a "day of ...

  6. List of women in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Ada, Countess of Lovelace wrote the first computer program, an algorithm for computing Bernoulli numbers on the Analytical Engine. Izabella Łaba (born 1966), Polish-Canadian specialist in harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics

  7. History of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) predicted the use of computers in symbolic manipulation. Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron) is credited as the pioneer of computer programming and is regarded as a mathematical genius. Lovelace began working with Charles Babbage as an assistant while Babbage was working on his "Analytical Engine", the first mechanical ...