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Ada Lovelace

Also known as Lady Ada, Augusta Ada Byron, Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, Ada Byron

English mathematician (1815–1852)

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Ada Lovelace, born Augusta Ada Byron, was a British mathematician, programmer, poet, and computer scientist. She was the daughter of Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Byron, and had siblings Elizabeth Medora Leigh and Allegra Byron. Lovelace was married to William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace, and they had a child named Anne Blunt. She was influenced by Charles Babbage and worked in the fields of computing and mathematics.

She was born in London on 10 December 1815 and died in Marylebone on 27 November 1852 from uterine cancer. Her birth name was Augusta Ada Byron, and her family name was King. She held the social classification of nobility and was a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Her notable works include *Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq*. She is referenced by 431 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 10 December 1815
Died: 27 November 1852
Works: 3

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Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq
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5 total works indexed

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
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THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
· 2009 · cited 4,692x
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,669x
Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A
· 2017 · cited 2,981x

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Quotes

“We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.”
“Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.”
“I may remark that the curious transformations many formulae can undergo, the unsuspected and to a beginner apparently impossible identity of forms exceedingly dissimilar at first sight, is I think one of the chief difficulties in the early part of mathematical studies. I am often reminded of certain sprites and fairies one reads of, who are at one's elbows in one shape now, and the next minute in a form most dissimilar.”
“[...] engine is the material expression of any indefinite function of any degree of generality and complexity.”

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Encyclopedic overview

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. She was the first to recognise the machine had applications beyond pure calculation. Lovelace is often considered the first computer programmer.

Lovelace was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron and reformer Anne Isabella Milbanke. Lord Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was born, and died when she was eight. Although often ill in childhood, Lovelace pursued her studies assiduously. She married William King in 1835. King was a Baron, and was created Viscount Ockham and 1st Earl of Lovelace in 1838. The name Lovelace was chosen because Ada was descended from the extinct Baron Lovelaces. The title given to her husband thus made Ada the Countess of Lovelace.

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