Friday, December 30, 2011

Episode 9: Dames Mathematica

Ada Lovelace and Emmy Noether - Dames of Mathematics








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Further Reading:
Ada Lovelace
"Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers" by Betty Toole (2010)
"The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron" by Joan Baum (1986)
"Ada, Countess of Lovelace, Byron's only Legitimate Daughter" by Doris Langley Moore (1977)
"Ada: A Life and Legacy" by Dorothy Stein (1985)
Sketch of the Analytical Engine by L. Menebrea. Notes by Ada Lovelace. (1843)
Great comic on Hark a Vagrant
Unbelievably thorough historiography of Ada Lovelace on Victorian Geek, invaluable resource on who said what when about Ada's much-contended legacy.
An Archetypal Bad Death: The Case of Ada Lovelace from Death in the Victorian Family by Patricia Jailand (2000)


Emmy Noether
"Modern Mathematicians" by Harry Henderson. (1996).
"The Mother of Modern Algebra" by M.B.W Tent (2008).
Great video lecture with Ransom Stephens:


Music: "Don't Make me Prove it" - Veruca Salt

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