March 26, 2018 Monday
Bedtime Story
Re-initiating Note G of Ada Lovelace - 4
I shall renew my quotation of Note G of Lovelace
which is both technical and mathematical but I owe it to sapiens apes to
republish the first ever algorithm.
This part also reflects the depth of
knowledge of Ada Lovelace both in mathematics as well as the proposed
analytical engine of Babbage.
The notes of Ada Lovelace do not make for
an easy reading as not only it is highly mathematical but it is mathematical
algorithm applied to a universal Turing machine that to this very day has never
got itself invented.
This is not to say that it will never be
constructed for as I write this bedtime story a movement is gathering steam
around one John Graham-Cumming, a British computer programmer and writer who in
October 2010 initiated a program of reconstruction of Charles Babbage’s
Analytical Engine.
The design that he is hoping to recreate
goes by the name of Plan 28 which would involve three crucial steps:
(a) Deciphering of the writings and
illustrations of Babbage
(b) Building a 3 D simulation of the engine
and
(c) Construction of the actual mechanical
steam-powered universal computing machine
Just as an addition, John Graham-Cumming
also happens to be the guy who initiated the successful petition to the British
government seeking an apology for its persecution of Alan Turing.
I promise that after quoting the various Notes
of Ada Lovelace starting from Note G and then going along as the need warrants,
I will describe the essence of all her notes in a much more simpler, modern and
non-mathematical English.
Till then please bear with me.
Re-initiating the Note G:
“The simplest manner of computing these
numbers (Bernoulli’s) would be from the direct expansion of
Which is in fact a particular case of the
development of
mentioned
in Note E
Or again, we might compute them from the
well-known form
Or from the form
Or from many others
Stay tuned to the voice of an average story storytelling
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Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
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