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Ada Lovelace

1815 - 1852

Mathematician

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, 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.

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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently

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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

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The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

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Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

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What is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.

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I am in a charming state of confusion.

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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

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If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?

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I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did – I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

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The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

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Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

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I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.

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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

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One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

Appreciation Language Mathematics Science Unconsious Unseen

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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, 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.

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