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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ada Lovelace has received more than 12,366,775 page views. Her biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2019). Ada Lovelace is the 34th most popular mathematician (up from 37th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 148th in 2019) and the 3rd 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 34 out of 1,004. Before her are Apollonius of Perga, John Napier, François Viète, Diophantus, Gerolamo Cardano, and Georg Cantor. After her are Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Kurt Gödel, Johann Bernoulli, Emmy Noether, and Pope Sylvester II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Ada Lovelace ranks 3. Before her are Otto von Bismarck, and John Bosco. After her are George Boole, Karl Weierstrass, Otto of Greece, Louis-Jules Trochu, Adolph Menzel, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Ildefons Cerdà, Thomas Couture, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Among people deceased in 1852, Ada Lovelace ranks 3. Before her are Nikolai Gogol, and Louis Braille. After her are Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Friedrich Fröbel, Henry Clay, Auguste de Marmont, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Johan Gadolin, Karl Bryullov, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, and Vasily Zhukovsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ada Lovelace ranks 113 out of 8,785. Before her are Jeremy Bentham (1748), Roger Bacon (1220), Terry Pratchett (1948), Ian McKellen (1939), H. G. Wells (1866), and Maggie Smith (1934). After her are Blackbeard (1680), Neville Chamberlain (1869), Edward VIII (1894), Ringo Starr (1940), Edward II of England (1284), and J. J. Thomson (1856).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Ada Lovelace ranks 3. Before her are Bertrand Russell (1872), and John Napier (1550). After her are George Boole (1815), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), G. H. Hardy (1877), Isaac Barrow (1631), Joan Clarke (1917), Thomas Harriot (1560), John Wallis (1616), Brook Taylor (1685), and John Couch Adams (1819).

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