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Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Mathematician, scientist and inventor of the Analytical Engine
Mentor, collaborator and correspondent
That Enchantress who has thrown her magical spell around the most abstract of Sciences and has grasped it with a force which few masculine intellects (in our country at least) could have exerted over it.
CB to MF (Ada Lovelace, 86)
Mathematician, scientist and inventor of the Analytical Engine
Mentor, collaborator and correspondent
That Enchantress who has thrown her magical spell around the most abstract of Sciences and has grasped it with a force which few masculine intellects (in our country at least) could have exerted over it.
CB to MF (Ada Lovelace, 86)
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Romantic poet, Ada's father
Romantic poet, Ada's father
Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child!Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart?When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled,And then we parted,- not as now we part,But with a hope.
Anne Isabella ('Annabella) Noel Byron (1792-1860)
Educational Reformer, Ada's mother and teacher
'Arithmetic, the first part o Algebra & Paisley's Practical Geometry'. Present information on these subjects confined to some general ideas of the value of numbers, without facility in working them
LB to DrK [B/LB/71, fol.153r]
Educational Reformer, Ada's mother and teacher
'Arithmetic, the first part o Algebra & Paisley's Practical Geometry'. Present information on these subjects confined to some general ideas of the value of numbers, without facility in working them
LB to DrK [B/LB/71, fol.153r]
Augustus de Morgan (1806-1871)
Mathematician, logician and first Professor of Mathematics at University College LondonTutor and correspondent
I am afraid you will indeed say that the office of my Mathematical Counsellor or Prime Minister is no joke.
AL to AdM [B/LB/170, fol.35r]
Mathematician, logician and first Professor of Mathematics at University College LondonTutor and correspondent
I am afraid you will indeed say that the office of my Mathematical Counsellor or Prime Minister is no joke.
AL to AdM [B/LB/170, fol.35r]
William Frend (1757-1841)
Mathematician, non-conformist, social reformer, writer and Ada's early tutor
I am very much interested on the subject just now, but I cannot make out things at all, viz: why a rainbow always appears to the spectator to be an arc of a circle.
AL to WF, 15-3-1834 [B/LB/171, fols 127r-127v]
Mathematician, non-conformist, social reformer, writer and Ada's early tutor
I am very much interested on the subject just now, but I cannot make out things at all, viz: why a rainbow always appears to the spectator to be an arc of a circle.
AL to WF, 15-3-1834 [B/LB/171, fols 127r-127v]
William King - Noel (1805-1893)
Landowner with an interest in agricultural economics, Ada's husband
What a happiness it is to feel towards any one what I do towards you, & to feel that it is reciprocal- I do not think there can be any earthly pleasure to that of reposing perfect truct & confidence in another, more, especially when that other is to become one's husband. AL to WK, 28 June 1835 (in Ada, 57)]
Landowner with an interest in agricultural economics, Ada's husband
What a happiness it is to feel towards any one what I do towards you, & to feel that it is reciprocal- I do not think there can be any earthly pleasure to that of reposing perfect truct & confidence in another, more, especially when that other is to become one's husband. AL to WK, 28 June 1835 (in Ada, 57)]
Dr William King (1786-1865)
Physician, philanthropist, Lady Byron's friend and Ada's early tutor
getting on very well so far, with Euclid. I usually do four propositions a day, and go over some of the old ones. I expect now to finish the 1st book in less than a week.
AL to WK [B/LB/172, fol132r]
Physician, philanthropist, Lady Byron's friend and Ada's early tutor
getting on very well so far, with Euclid. I usually do four propositions a day, and go over some of the old ones. I expect now to finish the 1st book in less than a week.
AL to WK [B/LB/172, fol132r]
Mary Somerville (1780-1872)
Mathematician, scientist, mentor and correspondent
I am very much delighted to have a cap made by you and the more so as it shows that we mathematicians can do other things besides studying xes and ys
MS to AL [B/LB/174, fol.19r]
Mathematician, scientist, mentor and correspondent
I am very much delighted to have a cap made by you and the more so as it shows that we mathematicians can do other things besides studying xes and ys
MS to AL [B/LB/174, fol.19r]
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