General Articles: Brief Lives

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

Alistair MacFarlane on how a poet’s daughter invented the concept of software.
[Issue 96: May/June 2013]

Alistair MacFarlane on a long life looking into language and logic.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013]

Alistair MacFarlane considers the being and times of the writer of Being and Time.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013]

Alistair MacFarlane considers the life and work of a profound physicist.
[Issue 93: November/December 2012]

Was he the greatest American philosopher? Alistair MacFarlane studies the signs.
[Issue 92: September/October 2012]

Alistair MacFarlane shows how the life of this logician reached beyond pure logic.
[Issue 91: July/August 2012]

Graeme Garrard observes the life of a paradoxical revolutionary hero.
[Issue 90: May/June 2012]

Alistair MacFarlane reveals paradoxes in the long life of the third Earl Russell.
[Issue 89: March/April 2012]

Alistair MacFarlane observes the logic of Karl Popper’s discoveries.
[Issue 88: January/February 2012]

Alistair MacFarlane sketches Wittgenstein’s life with words.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011]