# How Ada Lovelace solved problems

DevFeed: [How Ada Lovelace solved problems](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-ada-lovelace-solved-problems-35306.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://darkcoding.net/ideas/how-ada-lovelace-solved-problems/>)

Author: Graham King

Published: 2015-12-11T05:02:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Graham King](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/graham-king.md>)

Topics: [Ada](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ada.md>), [Mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mathematics.md>)

Tags: [ideas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ideas.md>), [mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mathematics.md>), [problems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/problems.md>), [program](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/program.md>), [puzzle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/puzzle.md>), [solve](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/solve.md>)

## AI overview

This article recounts how Ada Lovelace worked on a mathematics problem related to the Analytical Engine and documented what is described as the first known computer program for calculating Bernoulli numbers. When she became stuck, she went horseback riding and expected the problem to become clearer later.

## Source excerpt

Ada Lovelace: Debugging by horseback since 1843.