For “Lovelace & Babbage” http://amzn.to/1MbRWCu @sydneypadua did remarkable original historical research, summarized in funny footnotes.
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. -
“Uniting link between operations of matter and abstract mental processes” suggests Ada's known mind/body materialist & atheist agenda.
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