For “Lovelace & Babbage” http://amzn.to/1MbRWCu @sydneypadua did remarkable original historical research, summarized in funny footnotes.
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Ada Lovelace's primary teacher was De Morgan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan …, the preeminent logician of their time.
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There's a school of Ada-ology that says she was a doofus and Babbage did all the work.
@sydneypadua makes a good case that this is wrong. - 4 more replies
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@Meaningness What about (eg) La Mettrie? https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/la-mettrie/1748/man-machine.htm … Or you mean people who actually had a design? -
@mtraven Materialism yes, but no symbols yet? It seems—did only very quick wiki check - 3 more replies
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@jamesmcn not philosophically materialistic though? - 3 more replies
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