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Ada Lovelace

1815 - 1852

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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation. Lovelace was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron and reformer Anne Isabella Milbanke. All her half-siblings, Lord Byron's other children, were born out of wedlock to other women. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ada Lovelace is the 8th most popular mathematician (up from 34th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 113th in 2019) and the most popular British Mathematician.

Ada Lovelace is most famous for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. She is credited with being the first computer programmer.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ada Lovelace ranks 8 out of 1,004. Before her are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Blaise Pascal, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, and Fibonacci. After her are Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, John Forbes Nash Jr., Bernhard Riemann, Hypatia, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

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Among people born in 1815, Ada Lovelace ranks 2. Before her is Otto von Bismarck. After her are John Bosco, Otto of Greece, John A. Macdonald, George Boole, Karl Weierstrass, Adolph Menzel, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Thomas Couture, Louis-Jules Trochu, and Ildefons Cerdà. Among people deceased in 1852, Ada Lovelace ranks 1. After her are Nikolai Gogol, Louis Braille, Friedrich Fröbel, Henry Clay, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Auguste de Marmont, Johan Gadolin, Augustus Pugin, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, and Ján Kollár.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ada Lovelace ranks 28 out of 8,785. Before her are James Watt (1736), Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665), Stephen Hawking (1942), John, King of England (1166), Richard III of England (1452), and John Locke (1632). After her are James II of England (1633), Henry VI of England (1421), William IV of the United Kingdom (1765), George IV of the United Kingdom (1762), Richard I of England (1157), and Anne Boleyn (1501).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Ada Lovelace ranks 1. After her are Bertrand Russell (1872), John Napier (1550), George Boole (1815), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), John Couch Adams (1819), Thomas Harriot (1560), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), Joan Clarke (1917), John Wallis (1616), George Green (1793), and William Oughtred (1574).

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