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Pythagoras to pacifism: mathematics and archives

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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In this talk June Barrow-Green from the Open University describes some mathematical archives and some of the issues associated with them. Includes an introduction from Vicki Hanson, Vice-President of the ACM.

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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
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Will you concede me Poetical Science?

Ada Lovelace had a broad interest in the science and technologies of the day and explored post-Romantic ideas which made a significant link between science and poetry. In this talk Richard Holmes looks at some of these surprising connections.
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The early education of Ada Byron

In this talk Julia Markus, Hofstra University shall dispel the myth that Lady Byron kept Ada from poetry, she will also show that the mother-daughter relationship was a psychological spur to Ada's early experiments.
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Series
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary
People
June Barrow-Green
Vicki Hanson
Keywords
computing
Ada Lovelace
feminism
maths
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 18/12/2015
Duration: 00:26:12

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