Ada Lovelace

The mathematician who annotated Babbage's Analytical Engine and, in doing so, wrote the first program.

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1815 – 1852

Core Principles & Analysis

• Her notes on the Analytical Engine (1843) include a table of operations for Bernoulli numbers.
• She saw the engine could manipulate any symbols — music, not just numbers — the first general computing vision.
• She was Lord Byron's daughter, and worked with Charles Babbage in the 1840s.