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The early education of Ada Byron

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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In this talk Julia Markus, Hofstra University shall dispel the myth that Lady Byron kept Ada from poetry, she will also show that the mother-daughter relationship was a psychological spur to Ada's early experiments.

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Pythagoras to pacifism: mathematics and archives

In this talk June Barrow-Green from the Open University describes some mathematical archives and some of the issues associated with them. Includes an introduction from Vicki Hanson, Vice-President of the ACM.

The mathematical correspondence of Ada Lovelace and Augustus De Morgan

During the years 1840-1, Ada Lovelace corresponded with the mathematician Augustus De Morgan. In this talk Christopher Hollings, University of Oxford reports on recent new studies of the mathematics Ada was learning with De Morgan.

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary

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Department: Department of Computer Science

Date Added: 18/12/2015

Duration: 00:29:20

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