  This chapter makes needed corrections to an unduly negative scholarly view of
Ada Lovelace. Credit between Lovelace and Babbage is not a zero-sum game, where
any credit added to Lovelace somehow detracts from Babbage. Ample evidence
indicates Babbage and Lovelace each had important contributions to the famous
1843 Sketch of Babbage's Analytical Engine and the accompanying Notes. Further,
Lovelace's correspondence with two highly accomplished figures in 19th century
mathematics, Charles Babbage and Augustus De Morgan, establish her mathematical
background and sophistication. Babbage and Lovelace's treatment of the
Bernoulli numbers in Note 'G' spotlights this aspect of their collaboration.
Finally, while acknowledging significant definitional problems in calling
Lovelace the world's "first computer programmer," I affirm that Lovelace
created an elemental sequence of instructions -- that is, an algorithm -- for
computing the series of Bernoulli numbers.

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