Ada Lovelace: The mathematician
who wrote the first computer
program
On this day (10 December) Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), the mathematician who wrote the first computer program, was born. Regarded as a genius, Lovelace was said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor, the mechanical engineer Charles Babbage.
Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron, the only legitimate offspring of the brief marriage between the poet Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) and the mathematician Annabella Milbanke (later known as Lady Byron). Her manuscript was published in 1843. Within her paper, she included an algorithm for finding Bernoulli numbers, which is widely acclaimed as the first-ever computer algorithm. Lovelace impressed many with her talents during her lifetime, despite dying tragically young aged just 36 of uterine cancer.
Below. you may see both the computation diagram of the Numbers of Bernoulli and the general integral form.
The diagram represents the columns of the Babbage's (computer) engine when just prepared for computing B2n-1, while the table beneath them presents a complete simultaneous view of all the successive changes which these columns then severally pass through in order to perform the computation. The integral is worthy of remark, that the engine might (in a manner more or less similar to the preceding) calculate the value of this formula upon most other hypotheses for the functions in the integral with as much, or (in many cases).
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