General Chat

I'm glad the BBC have repeated the programme again. I mentioned her only a few days ago on Sharron's thread as I had never heard of her till our local paper did an article about the memorial to her at Kirkby Mallory church a few miles from me. Her parents lived at the Hall, now demolished and some of the land is home to Mallory Park racing circuit now.

Her mother was very mathematical too. I thought this quite interesting.

https://www.hinckleypastpresent.org/kirkbyhall.html

How different it would have been had she been a man.

Our village has an area that is all named after poets.

Where have you been, Rollo? That is also an English custom..

We have streets in this area named after poets, writers, politicians etc., people famous for one thing or another.

There are also plenty of Salters Lanes in this area too. They are a testament to hard-working ordinary folk.

I liked the idea of the fourth plinth and still do..

why?

I like the French custom of naming streets after people usually people of science, social reformers, writers and musicians. Ada Lovelace' contribution to the science of numerical methods was massive a door opened through which many followed. Sure her private life was unconventional, what of it? So was that of Alan Turing.

A.L. is in my family tree though at a distance. I have been aware of her as a mathematician since I was 14.

I have never heard of her but Babbage, I knew about.

However, another statue, Rollo, in our normal country? I think plenty of our citizens would come up with other people to honour with a statue so there'd be some opposition to that idea.

Thank you. We’ll record that to view later.

Although she’s been largely ignored, the writers of the semi-fictional series Victoria did incorporate her achievements into one of the episodes.

'Achievement of some people stand so tall, a statue in their honour would never match up'.

Women are definitely sidelined when it comes to their contributions to the scientific world.

I didn't know that! I learn something new every day :-)

today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p030s5bx

You may find this interesting. Or maybe not.

https://enigmaticcode.wordpress.com/tag/bernoulli-numbers/

If the UK was a normal country there would be a Lovelace College, statues, schools named after Ada Lovelace. As it is we prefer her father's poetry.