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“In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science.”

Quote by Ada Lovelace

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Ada Lovelace, a British mathematician, is hailed as a pioneer in the field of computer science. She collaborated with Charles Babbage on the design of the Analytical Engine and is credited with writing the first algorithm for it, making her the world's first programmer. Ada Lovelace was born on December 10, 1815, and died on November 27, 1852. more

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“It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.”

Kind May Mean Two Universe Process Subjects Relation Definitions Operations Mutual Desirable

Author:Ada Lovelace

“It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it were equally a necessity of things that the reasonings connected with operations should hold the same just place as a clear and well-defined branch of the subject of analysis, a fundamental but yet independent ingredient in the science, which they must do in studying the engine.”

“One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.”

Objects Essentials Minimum Arrangements Calculations Completing

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“Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms have a shifting meaning, independent sets of considerations are liable to become complicated together, and reasoning and results are frequently falsified.”

Together Term Results Figures Independent Complicated Symbols Operations Reasoning Consideration Shifting Magnitude Liable

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“I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.”

Country Mother Girl Daughter My Daughter Exposed Country Girl

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“The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four operations in a direct manner, without the aid of any of the other three.”

Three Four Equal Direct Add Aids Contrary Operations Divides Engines Facility

Author:Ada Lovelace

“The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.”

Whole Seems Together Religious Moral Intellectual Bounds Harmonious

Author:Ada Lovelace

“The method of differences is, in fact, a method of additions; and as it includes within its means a larger number of results attainable by addition simply, than any other mathematical principle, it was very appropriately selected as the basis on which to construct an Adding Machine, so as to give to the powers of such a machine the widest possible range.”

Giving Mean Facts Differences Results Numbers Principles Machines Bases Method Mathematical Range Constructs Selected

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“The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.”

Feels Study Genius Insatiable

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“The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter.”

Giving Facts Use Process Objects Higher Resources Practicals Combination Analysis Latter Interpretation Engines Efficiency

Author:Ada Lovelace