Ada Lovelace studies two very different machine designs, writes a published plan of ordered steps, and asks whether instructions could help a machine work with music as well as numbers.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of Ada Lovelace: Beyond the Numbers, free to read.
When Ada was a girl, mathematics was one of her lessons at home. Her mother had studied it, too, and made sure Ada learned it. Few girls of Ada’s time had such an education. What can a pattern of numbers tell us? Ada had a way to find out: study it, step by step.
As a teenager, Ada kept studying math and visited science shows. New machines and ideas drew her attention. At seventeen, she wrote to her mother asking to hear about things that were curious and electrical. Her letter lets us see her wide interests. Soon, one machine would give Ada a bigger question to explore.
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