In your Note G on his Analytical Engine, published in 1843, you showed – in what is perhaps the first computer program – how it could be used to generate Bernoulli numbers. They were mechanical, steam-powered prototypes of what we now call computers. The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere calculating machines. His great projects were attempts to build automatic calculating machines. I have always fancied you for a little harum-scarum and inaccurate. I do not think you possess half my forethoughts, & powers of foreseeing all possible contingencies ( probable & improbable, just alike). You weren’t intimidated by the age difference – Babbage was 24 years older than you – or his status as a famous mathematician and inventor? I have a peculiar way of learning and I think it must it must be a peculiar man to teach me successfully. Tell us about your relationship with Charles Babbage. It has indeed been shown that you were ahead of your time. That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal as time will show. I do not believe that my father was (or even could have been) such a Poet as I shall be an analyst (& metaphysician) for with me the two go together indisputably. You were well set up to do interesting things.
Universal History Archive/Getty Images Your mother was mathematically trained, and your father, Lord Byron, a great poet.
“I conclude is bent on displaying the whole expanse of my capacious jaw bone, upon which the word Mathematics should be written”
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