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Let's explore the biographies of a few brilliant mathematicians in computer history.
In the early 1800s, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were friends and co-created many early (theoretical) computer programs. Ada envisioned an idea of programming that pushed further, and theorized that computer programming could eventually automate factories, or play music. She was right. Alan Turing's brilliant mathematical model of a computer would prove the full extent of this branch of mathematics possible, about 100 years later in 1936.