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    telling you how Ada Lovelace was important in the world of math and also why she is so important today. Ada Lovelace was born in London, United Kingdom on December 10, 1815. She was the daughter of Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Byron. Ada’s father had abandoned his wife and daughter when Ada was one month old leaving britain forever,he passed away in Greece at the age of thirty-six when Ada was only eight years old, so that means she didn’t have her father throughout her whole life. Ada had…

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    Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were two brilliant mathematicians that affected the world of Computing greatly. Ada is considered to be the first ever programmer due to the fact that she wrote the first ever algorithm for a very early computing machine on paper. Babbage was the first man who built the first general purpose computer, and although he didn't manage to see his work complete and fully working, he managed to set the idea of what was imagined to be a revolutionary machine. Charles…

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    part of Ada has died but she fights against it. Ada becomes the victim of savage violence at the hands of Stewart. Flora, a witness to the price of her action of betrayal, screams in horror, while Ada experiences her pain in muteness. Silently, she takes a few steps into a puddle and with her skirt swallowing her to collapses in the mud. Stewart sends her finger to Baines with a violent threat and warning that there will be more cut off another finger for each time Baines sees her. As Ada…

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    • Greater Love is a poem written by Wilfred Owen where he mock romantic love for falling short in front of the brotherly-friendship bonds created during young men in war. • Wilfred Owen was an officer in World War I, however was sent to a hospital because he suffered from "shellshock". Here, he met poet Siegfried Sassoon, who played a part in influencing him to write poetry about war and the suffering of soldiers. He later returned to the war, where he was killed. Opening Statement and Title •…

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    Richard Lovelace was charming, handsome, and affluent. He embodied the disposition that any woman could fancy during his time, but outwardly that was all there was to him. If you were to ask around you would be told that he was well-off and distinguished and seemingly that was where his persona had stopped. So the question posed becomes, “why would a man so forgettable, be remembered for such a long period of time?” The works he composed such as "To Althea From Prison" answer as to why. Lovelace…

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    Lord Byron, Augusta Ada Byron - better known as Ada Lovelace - was born in London on December 10, 1815. Ada showed her gift for mathematics and science at a young age. Later on, she also translated an article on an invention by Charles Babbage (an inventor and mathematician) ,and added in her own ideas and comments. Because she introduced many computer concepts, Ada is considered to be the first computer programmer. Ada's life came to an end on November 27, 1852. Ada Lovelace had an unusual…

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    encouraged, as many stupendous thinkers, writers, and scientists emerged from this time period. While many influential figures have emerged at this time period, three individuals that have made a tremendous impact in the name of science are Johannes Kepler, Ada Byron, and Galileo. Johannes Kepler was a seventeenth century astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, and philosopher, whose work contributed to the understanding and explaining of the motions of the planets in our solar system. Kepler…

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    Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace is best known as Ada Lovelace, a mathematician and the world’s first computer programmer. She was born on December 10, 1815 in Middlesex, England to wealthy, educated parents. Her father was the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron and her mother was Anne Isabella Milbanke, who was well-educated and enjoyed mathematics and science. Ada was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron. However, she is said to have been abandoned her father and unfortunately, she…

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    about, I found a brief summary from their website: “Two people try to imagine their way out of impossible circumstances in FUTURITY – an avant-Americana musical by indie band The Lisps. Julian is a Civil War soldier dreaming of a technological utopia. Ada is a mathematical genius thousands of miles away. Together, they’re going to invent a machine to end one of the darkest periods in our history. An electrifying concert-story featuring an army of thirteen musicians.” One of the reasons I was…

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    According to Walter Isaacson, author of “The Innovators”, some early women influencers in computing included Ada Lovelace, and Grace Hopper (Isaacson, 2014). She observed while working with Charles Babbages on his calculating machine, that it beyond just calculating numbers, it could support anything symbolically, including music, and word processing. Ms. Lovelace (1815-1852) was a gifted computer programmer and mathematician that was considered to have written instructions for the first…

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