Augusta Ada King or Count of Lovelace was born with the name Augusta Ada Byron but who’s now known as Ada Lovelace was born on December 10th, during the year of 1815. She was born in London and died November 27th, in 1852. She was the daughter of a famous poet known as Lord Byron. Ada is reflected to have printed instructions for the first computer program in the mid 1800s. She was best known for being a skilled mathematician.
Ada Lovelace was encouraged to be a mathematician from her mother who studied math and was firm that Ada should not become a poet like her father. She bonded with Charles Babbage, inventor of the calculator, by working with him.
Very shortly after Ada was born her, mother divorced her father and was then presented with sole custody of Ada who she brought up to follow in her foot steps and become a mathematician. Lady Byron did absolutely everything she could to make sure that her daughter did not end up like her father and become a poet.
When Ada was about 17 she met Mary Somerville who translated LaPlace’s works i...
... an excellent teacher who inspired all of her students, even if they were undergraduates, with her huge love for mathematics. Aware of the difficulties of women being mathematicians, seven women under her direction received doctorates at Bryn Mawr. Anna took her students to mathematical meetings oftenly. She also urged the women to participate on an equal professional level with men. She had great enthusiasm to teach all she knew about mathematics. She loved learning all she could about mathematics. Anna was a big contributor to mathematics. Anna was gifted in this department. She spent most of her life trying to achieve her accomplishments. She truly is a hero to women. She achieved all of these accomplishments when women mathematicians were very uncommon. She deserved all the awards and achievements she won. Judy Green and Jeanne Laduke, science historians, stated,
Why does Jane Addams think women should have the right to vote? Please summarize her argument in your own words.
Byron was born on January 22, 1788 in London, England. He was the son of Captain John Byron and Catherine Gordon (Magill 312). His father had a daughter from a previous marriage, named Augusta. Byron was born with a clubbed right foot, which gave him a limp every time he walked for the rest of his life. His father was greedy and sought out money from all of his wives, so in 1789 Byron moved with his mother to Aberdeen. He grew up with a rough childhood, being abused by his mother often. However, he found help when he began reading the Bible and developed a love for history. This eventually led to his ideas for writing and his journeys across the globe (“Lord”).
Some fun fact about Mary Shelley. Brought up by an abusive father left home and dedicated herself to a life of writing. While working as a translator to Joseph Johnson a publisher of radical texts she published her most famous work . In 1812 mary met the poet Percy Shelley her soon to be lover.
Joan of Arc is perhaps one of the most well-known and influential women in Western history. Arthur Conan Doyle argued that “Next to the Christ the highest spiritual being of whom we have any exact record upon this earth is the girl Jeanne" (Denis 5). Her fearlessness and devotion to God has been praised by iconic figures such as Winston Churchill, Pope Benedict XVI and Mark Twain. Her accomplishments are immortalized in history books, art and pop culture. Unlike any other, Joan stands as a feminist leader and an inspiration to all Christians.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was born in Rockland, Maine. Her parents, Cora Lounella, a nurse, and Henry Tolman Millay, a schoolteacher. (Blain, Grund, and Clements ) Known to her family as "Vincent," she was named after St. Vincent Hospital in New York City, where her uncle had received care. At the age of 8, her parents divorced, and her mother raised Millay and her younger sisters.("Edna St. Vincent Millay" ) After Millay’s mother and father got a divorce her mother raised her and her 2 other sisters on her own in the year 1899.(Academy of American Poets 1) Millay’s mother motivated her daughters to appreciate music and literature from an young age so that they would be ambitious and self-sufficient.(Academy of American Poets 1) Millay’s mother implored that Millay enter her poem "Renascence" into a contest as the outcome to her mother's advice she won fourth place and publication in The Lyric Year.(Academy of American Poets 1) This being the case she not long after received notice and a scholarship to Vassar. (Academy of American Poets 1) As can be seen her mother...
Marianne Moore was born on November 15, 1887 in Kirkwood, Missouri. Her father, who was an engineer, suffered a mental breakdown before her birth and was hospitalized before she could meet him. Moore lived with her mother, her brother, and her grandfather in Missouri until her grandfather’s death in 1894. Moore’s mother moved the family briefly to Pittsburgh and then to Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Moore attended Metzger Institute through high school and then enrolled at Bryn Mawr College in 1905. At Bryn Mawr Moore she published poems in two of the school’s literary magazines: Tipyn O’Bob and the Lantern. She majored in history, law, and politics, and graduated in 1909. After graduating Moore took secretarial courses at Carlisle Commercial College and then taught bookkeeping, stenography, typing, commercial English, and law. [i]
Jane Addams, known as Laura Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. Addams was the eighth daughter of 9 children, she lived a life of privilege
Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was born to Abigail Alcott and Bronson Alcott. Louisa is the second of four sisters. She was raised in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts (Eds. of Merriam- Webster 12). Bronson Alcott worked at a school for the first five years of Louisa’s life (Herzberg 13). Once a mob encircled the school, Bronson quit the job (Kunitz and Haycraft 18). Her father was penniless and could not contribute and support Abigail, Louisa, and the three other children Bronson fathered. Since he could not support them, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Henry David Thoreau helped to raise Louisa (Eds. of Merriam- Webster). Thoreau helped Alcott with her education. He helped her out because her father did not support her (Kunitz and Haycraft 18). Emerson, Parker, Thoreau, and her father influenced her education and lifestyle during her childhood. Bronson Alcott, who found Fruitlands, which later failed, drove his family into poverty (Eds. of Merriam- Webster 12). Alcott (Louisa) did not understand this (Douglas 31). She soon realized that she had to work in order to support herself and her family. She worked as a teacher for a short time and then began to write. She sta...
No other scholar has affected more fields of learning than Blaise Pascal. Born in 1623 in Clermont, France, he was born into a family of respected mathematicians. Being the childhood prodigy that he was, he came up with a theory at the age of three that was Euclid’s book on the sum of the interior of triangles. At the age of sixteen, he was brought by his father Etienne to discuss about math with the greatest minds at the time. He spent his life working with math but also came up with a plethora of new discoveries in the physical sciences, religion, computers, and in math. He died at the ripe age of thirty nine in 1662(). Blaise Pascal has contributed to the fields of mathematics, physical science and computers in countless ways.
Computer engineering started about 5,000 years ago in China when they invented the abacus. The abacus is a manual calculator in which you move beads back and forth on rods to add or subtract. Other inventors of simple computers include Blaise Pascal who came up with the arithmetic machine for his father’s work. Also Charles Babbage produced the Analytical Engine, which combined math calculations from one problem and applied it to solve other complex problems. The Analytical Engine is similar to today’s computers.
There have been many great mathematicians in the world, though many are not well known. People have been studying math for ages, the oldest mathematical object dated all the way back to around 35,000 BC. There are still mathematicians today, studying math and figuring out ways to improve the mathematical world. Some of the most well-known mathematicians include Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Aristotle. These mathematicians (and many more) have influenced the mathematical world and mathematics would not be where it is today without them. There were many great individuals who contributed greatly in mathematics but there was one family with eight great mathematicians who were very influential in mathematics. This was the Bernoulli family. The Bernoulli family contributed a lot to mathematics, medicine, physics, and other areas. Even though they were great mathematicians, there was also hatred and jealousy between many of them. These men did not want their brothers or sons outdoing them in mathematics. Most Bernoulli fathers told their sons not to study mathematics even if they wanted. They were told to study medicine, business, or law, instead, though most of them found a way to study mathematics. The mathematicians in this family include Jacob, Johann, Daniel, Nicolaus I, Nicolaus II, Johann II, Johann III, and Jacob II Bernoulli.
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest mathematicians to ever live, which is displayed in all of his inventions. His main pursuit through mathematics was to better the understanding and exploration of the world. He preferred drawing geographical shapes to calculate equations and create his inventions, which enlisted his very profound artistic ability to articulate his blueprints. Leonardo Da Vinci believed that math is used to produce an outcome and thus Da Vinci thought that through his drawings he could execute his studies of proportional and spatial awareness demonstrated in his engineering designs and inventions.
Lord Byron was born on January 22, 1788, as George Gordon Noel Byron in London, England ("Lord Byron Biography"). As a child, Byron had to deal with an abusive nurse, a schizophrenic mother, and a father who had abandoned him. On top of this, he was born with a clubfoot which made him self-conscious. In 1798, George Byron became Lord Byron when his great-uncle William Byron died, and George claimed the title of 6th Baron Byron as he was next in line ("Lord Byron Biography").
Augusta Ada Lovelace, known as Ada Lovelace was born in what is now, Piccadilly Terrace, London, on December 10, 1815 (Ada King, countess of Lovelace). Ada Lovelace was a brilliant mathematician who later was introduced to Charles Babbage, whom she started working with. Lovelace translated an article in English and expressed her comments. Ada Lovelace is considered to be the first computer programmer in the 1800’s, and the first female to have written instructions for computer programming (Ada Lovelace Biography Mathematician, Computer Programmer (1815–1852)).