# Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace worked in nineteenth-century Britain within aristocratic, mathematical, and scientific networks and is best known for her notes on Charles Babbage’s proposed Analytical Engine. Her 1843 translation and extensive notes articulated how a general-purpose calculating engine might manipulate symbols according to rules, including a worked procedure for Bernoulli numbers.

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