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Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace

The life of Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace) - Invented Computer Programming


Bernoulli Number Program

From the first published algorithm intended for implementation on a computer.

\[ B_n = -\frac{1}{n+1} \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} \binom{n+1}{k} B_k \]

Sources: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lovelace/

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