Souza represents mathematics in post-independence Brazil

The machine transferred parts of calculation from human computers to mechanisms but still depended on designers, machinists and operators.

Accurate tables supported navigation, surveying, taxation and astronomy, activities closely tied to British administrative and maritime power.

The Brazilian mathematician known as Souzinha became the first Brazilian awarded a doctorate in mathematics.

His work sought solutions and general methods in areas then central to European mathematical research.

Souza struggled to secure evaluation and publication of memoirs in European institutions that controlled international recognition.

Her translation of Menabrea's account appeared with notes much longer than the original and explained the unrealized machine's operations.

The table specifies operations, variables and repetitions in a form recognizable as an algorithm.

She argued that the Engine could follow operations supplied to it but could not originate ideas on its own.

Lovelace compared punched-card control with the Jacquard loom, linking patterns in textiles with patterns in symbolic computation.

Noether became a foundational figure in abstract algebra and mathematical physics despite institutional discrimination against women and Jews.