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@tarah@infosec.exchange
2026-01-11 14:41:04

It's always lovely to have the doubters get their asses academically kicked when it comes to Ada Lovelace's actual mathematical capabilities, but at the same time, I am so, so, so tired. Just so very tired. From an open access 2017 Historia Mathematica article debunking the idea that Lovelace was not a competent mathematician.

C. Hollings et al. / Historia Mathematica 44 (2017) 202-231 203
1. Introduction

On 21 January 1844, the English mathematician Augustus De Morgan wrote a confidential letter to Lady
Noel Byron about her 28-year-old daughter, Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace, who De Morgan
had tutored as a private pupil in various areas of advanced mathematics for about eighteen months in the
early 1840s. In his letter, while he was at pains to stress that “I have never expressed to Lady Lovelace my
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