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remained close friends with Mary Somerville's family, and particularly with her eldest son by her first marriage, Woronzow Greig
, for the rest of her life. Somerville not only fostered Ada's mathematical aptitude, but...
Instructor
Augusta Ada Byron
AAB
(now Countess of Lovelace) began studying with Augustus De Morgan
, a leading logician and the first professor of mathematics at the University of London
.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
under Lovelace, Augusta
Stein, Dorothy. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. MIT Press, 1985.
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Instructor
Augusta Ada Byron
Lady Byron employed a number of governesses to educate the young AAB
at their various country homes. From the age of five Ada received full-time instruction in arithmetic, grammar, spelling, reading, music, geography, drawing, and...
Literary responses
Ann Taylor Gilbert
The Critical Review gave the second volume five words: Very good in their way.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 6 (1805): 333
William Godwin
set his difficult stepson Charles Clairmont, aged eleven, to learn ATG
's My Mother...
Literary responses
Augusta Ada Byron
The authorship of A Sketch of the Analytical Engine (which had been published as by A.L.L., for Ada, Lady Lovelace) was revealed in a review in Athenæum in 1848. The work garnered a small...