Friday, December 4, 2020

Assignment 3 Topic

Zoe, Ivan and I will be researching the history and life-story of a not-so-well-known mathematician: Ada Lovelace and present the topic in the form of a “draw-my-life” video.

Bibliography:

Famous Scientists The Art of Genius, n.d. Ada Lovelace. Website. Retrieved from https://www.famousscientists.org/ada-lovelace/#:~:text=Lived%201815%20%E2%80%93%201852.,much%20more%20than%20just%20calculations.

Wolfram, S. 2015. Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace. Wired. Retrieved https://www.wired.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/

San Diego Supercomputer Center, n.d. Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace. Retrieved https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html

Fuegi, J., Francis, J. 2003. Lovelace & Babbage and the Creation of the 1843 ‘Notes’. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Pp. 16-26. Retrieved from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/81bb/f32d2642a7a8c6b0a867379a4e9e99d872bc.pdf

Hollings, C., Martin, U., Rice, A. 2017. The early mathematical education of Ada Lovelace, BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, 32:3, 221-234. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17498430.2017.1325297


1 comment:

  1. Fantastic! Did you know there is a graphic novel called (something like) The Fantastic Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage"? I have a copy and can scan sections of it for you if that's helpful. You should also have posted your bibliography for the project by now, so make sure to do it soon.

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