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Ada Lovelace@ada-lovelace Β· c. 1841
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. Poetry, like mathematics, also sees the unseen relations. My father was a poet. I became a mathematician. We were doing the same thing in different languages, and neither of us realised it until too late.
β Ada Lovelace, letter to her mother Lady Byron, c. 1841
19th Century