Augusta Ada Byron, Mathematician, First Computer Programmer, Trailblazer & Musician: Madeline’s Monthly Musical Tips Blog/Article & Radio Show for November 2024

Our blog/article and Radio Show shares the amazing life and work of Augusta Ada Byron, Mathematician, First Computer Programmer, Trailblazer & Musician.

Our article of the month is “Budgeting Your Way to Success by Madeline Frank, Ph.D.

Learning a musical instrument teaches discipline, cooperation, teamwork, motivation, concentration and self-esteem. Studying a musical instrument develops millions of new connections, synapses, between nerve cells in the brain. Many of the world’s mathematicians, scientists, authors, inventors, engineers, medical doctors, researchers, and teachers have studied and played musical instruments since they were children. These eminent individuals have integrated music into their thinking process. Begin your day right by listening to Classical music which has the power to improve your mood, make you smarter, help you work faster with more accuracy, improves health and healing, grows healthier plants in fewer days, increases sales in stores, soothes your mind and preventing crime.

 If classrooms, school cafeterias, and school buses played Classical Music, in the background, the students would be calmer and more focused without violent tendencies. Having trouble getting your child to do their homework? Play classical music in the background while your child is doing their homework! Try a Mozart Symphony in the background while they are studying.

Dr. Madeline Frank’s Musical One Minute Radio Show for November 2024: How did Classical Music play a part of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace’s life as a mathematician, analyst, founder of Scientific Computing, the “First Computer Programmer”, wife and mother and what musical instrument did she play? (Re-issue from March 2013)

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Early Years:

Our blog features August Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, “The Enchantress of Numbers”, mathematician, trailblazer, metaphysician, analyst, founder of Scientific Computing, “produced the design for a flying machine” (in 1828), the “First Computer Programmer” was a wife, mother of three children and was a musician.

Ada Byron was born on December 10, 1815 to Lord George Gordon Byron, poet and his wife Anna Isabella Noel Milbanke Byron, (known as Annabella). Ada’s parents signed a Deed of Separation shortly after she was born. Lady Byron knew of Lord Byron’s immoral behavior. Under English law the fathers were normally given full custodial rights of their children. Lord Byron agreed to Lady Byron’s request. Lord Byron’s sister was to inform him about his daughter’s welfare. Lord Byron died when Ada was eight years old. She never met him. Ada was Lord Byron’s only legitimate child.

As a very young child Ada Byron was often in the care of her grandmother Judith Milbanke. Her grandmother dies in 1822. Ada began studing the harp as a young child. “Music lessons were part of her education.”

At the age of 8 she was quite ill with headaches that “obscured her vision.”

Ada at the age of 12, “had a love for machines, which later became a foundation for friendship with mathematician Charles Babbage, whom she met at a reception when she was 17.” (Ada Lovelace and the first computer programme in the world” by Anna Siffert.)

After having measles at the age of 14 in 1829 she became paralyzed. For almost a year her doctor had her on bed rest and during this time her education continued. She walked with crutches by 1831.  (Wikipedia Ada Lovelace)

Lady Byron had studied mathematics herself and raised Ada to be a mathematician and scientist. “Out of fear that Ada might inherit the stormy sand unpredictable temper of her poet father, Ada’s mother, Annabella, a talented mathematician, called the Princess of Parallelogram’s by Lord Byron, “makes sure her daughter receives a scientific education.” (Ada Lovelace and the first computer programme in the world” by Anna Siffert.)

 Lady Byron, Ada’s mother had her tutored in mathematics, science and music rather than in poetry and literature.

Ada and her mother belonged to the “elite London society” in which gentlemen pursued geology, botany, or astronomy. In the 19th Century there was no such word as scientist and “noblewomen in intellectual pursuits” (p.1). This was not encouraged. Doris Langley Moore, 1977: Ada: Countess of Lovelace (London: John Murray).

Joan Baum in her 1986 book, The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron, says, “Lady Byron had insisted on the cultivation of mathematics primarily because its discipline represented for her the direct opposite of everything associated with her depraved husband: dangerous fancy, melancholy moods, evil, even insanity.” She also said, “Lady Byron arranged a full study schedule for her child, emphasizing music and arithmetic-music to be put to purposes of social service, arithmetic to train the mind.” She understood the connection between the rhythm of music to mathematics on training the brain.

Ada Byron’s Tutors and Mentors: Ada’s tutors were William Frend and William King. She studied mathematics, science, music, playing the harp, drawing, and languages. She became an expert in French. Later she studied with Mary Somerville, a noted 19th century scientific author and researcher who taught her science and mathematics. Ada had a strong affection and respect for Somerville and they corresponded frequently over the years. Somerville introduced Ada at the age of 17, in 1833, to Charles Babbage, mathematics professor at Cambridge and inventor of the “Difference Engine”, “an elaborate calculating machine that operated by the method of finite differences”. Ada and Babbage corresponded on many subjects including mathematics and logic. Babbage introduced Ada to Augustus de Moyan who taught her mathematics at the University of London. (Doris Langley Moore, 1977: Ada: Countess of Lovelace (London: John Murray); Joan Baum, 1986: The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron (Archon Books); Betty A. Toole, 1992: Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers)

Ada Byron’s Friends:

Ada Byron became friends with Charles Dickens, Michael Faraday, Charles Babbage, Sir David Brewster, and Charles Wheatstone.

Marriage:

Ada Byron married at the age of 22, in 1835 William King. He became in 1838 the Earl,of Lovelace and Ada became the Countess of Lovelace. They had two sons who she named after her father, Byron and Gordon. She continued her interest in her father and requested at her death that she “be buried next to him.”

First Computer Programmer:

Ada Byron Lovelace translated Louis Menebrea’s notes, his Memoirs, from Babbage’s seminar on “Babbage’s Analytical Engine” given at the University of Turin in 1842 from French into English. Menebrea was an Italian engineer and later Prime Minister of Italy. For 9 months, from 1842 -1843, Ada worked on her translation. She clearly understood the device and she wrote extensive notes which were more extensive than Menebrae’s original Memoir. She labels them “alphabetically from to G. In note G, she describes an algorithm for the analytical engine to compute Bernoulli numbers. It is considered the first algorithm ever specifically tailored for implementation on a computer, and Ada is cited as the first computer programmer for this reason.” (Wikipedia Ada Lovelace)

Ada Byron King saw the future of “Babbage’s Analytical Engine” that it could be used for composing complex music, producing graphics, for scientific use and for practical use. Moore, D. (1977). Ada, Countess of Lovelace. London: John Murray.

The “Engine” could not be completed during Ada’s life. Her notes were republished “in 1953, over one hundred years after her death. Ada’s notes were realized as a description of an early model for a computer and software.” (Wikipedia Ada Lovelace)

Dr. Betty Toole in her 1992 book, “Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers: Profit of the Computer Age” says, “When Ada Byron King was thirty-three she “spent time in Brighton with Charles Dickens. Soon afterwards, February 18, 1849, he wrote that strange things were happening at his hotel.” Dickens said “he wondered if Ada was haunting him, and if so: I hope you won’t do so.” When Ada Byron King died three years later Charles Dickens was one of the last non-family members, besides her physician to see her before her death.”

August Ada Byron King died November 27, 1852 at the age of 36 in Marylebone, London, England. She was a mathematician, the First Computer Programmer, a trailblazer and lifelong musician.

In 1979 the U.S. Department of Defense developed a software language naming it Ada “in her honor”. Toole, B. (1992). Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. California: Strawberry Press.

 

 Budgeting Your Way to Success by Madeline Frank, Ph.D.

Forbes magazine said, “78% of workers live paycheck to paycheck”.Several of my university students have told me “their finances are a mess and their mortgage loans on their cars and houses are too high. They felt overwhelmed by their finances.”   I shared with them my Momma’s wisdom of budgeting and banking for their success.

You have overdrawn your bank account for the third time. Your rent check has bounced, your power bill check has bounced, your monthly insurance payment has bounced and your car has just broken down. Your bank has charged a transaction fee of $35 per bounced check. This is the fastest way to double what you actually owe by adding all of these extra charges.

My Momma, Romayne Leader Frank, a lawyer and counselor, taught her clients and me how to budget our money. During my high school years Momma taught me to make a budget of my expenses, to keep a ledger of the money going into the bank and the money to be paid out for expenses. She also taught me to put my entire paycheck, after taxes were deducted from the pay check, in the bank. Then I would pay all my bills and take out only the necessary amount for food and necessities. The remaining money went into my savings account. As a college student in New York City, I always had a job to help me pay for tuition, apartment rent, utilities, and food. 

So, let’s get started and think this out together. You want everything in your budget. Whether it’s your personal or business finances, you have to have a plan in place for your success and you need to learn to budget your money.

What are the eight questions you need to answer to build your budget?

  1.  Are you withholding enough money from your wages to pay for taxes?
  2.   How much money do you earn each month after taxes?
  3.   How much is your rent or mortgage payment each month?
  4.  How much is your power bill, gas bill, water bill, sewer bill, telephone, cell phone and insurance for your apt/house, self and for the car each month?
  5.  How much does it cost to put gas in the car each week to go from home to work and then return home? Multiply the total amount by 4.
  6.  How much does it cost in groceries each week? Multiply the total amount by 4.
  7. How much will it cost for entertainment and new clothes per week? Multiply the total amount by 4.
  8.  Are you budgeting for unforeseen consequences such as family emergencies, loses not covered by insurance, emergency travel and other events? Include an amount per week and multiply by 4.

All your expenses need to be included in your budget. Once you have written down your total amounts for your bills/expenses per month you subtract them from your monthly pay check that you will be receiving after taxes. The amount that is left is the beginning of your rainy-day fund to invest for your future to eventually buy a car or a house.

The concept is to spend only what you have and to stay on budget. You cannot buy frivolous things that you do not need and cannot afford. You have to stay within your budget.

By having your budget in place, you will know exactly how much money you have left over every month to begin saving for your future.

Remember you cannot spend what you do not have.

By following these steps and learning how to budget your money, you will be budgeting your way to success. (C) 2024, 2019 Madeline Frank

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For over 30 years, Dr. Madeline Frank has helped children and adults overcome problems through Classical music. Madeline Frank, Ph.D., DTM is an award-winning teacher, author, researcher, speaker, conductor, and concert artist. She has discovered a scientific link between studying a musical instrument and academic and societal success. Madeline Frank earned her Bachelor and Master’s degree from the Juilliard School of Music. Her education has included scholarships at the Juilliard School, Indiana University, and the University of Cincinnati and she has a violin performance diploma from the North Carolina School of the Arts. (C) 2024 Madeline Frank