Helping Ada Lovelace with her Homework: Classroom Exercises from a Victorian Calculus Course – Ten Problems Attempted by Lovelace

For the statement of each of Lovelace's ten homework exercises, click on the corresponding link in the following list. Links to the solution of each problem are included on the problem page, or can be accessed from the Solutions Page.

• Problem 1: a problem involving an algebraic manipulation that arose from a discussion of logarithmic expressions in De Morgan’s Elements of Algebra.
• Problem 2: a problem involving functional equations arising from Ada Lovelace's study of Chapter 10 of De Morgan’s Elements of Algebra.
• Problem 3: a question posed by Lovelace about imaginary numbers that was sparked by her reading of De Morgan’s article “Negative and Impossible Quantities” in the Penny Cyclopaedia.
• Problem 4: a problem involving logarithmic differentiation from Peacock’s Collection of Examples of the Application of the Differential and Integral Calculus.
• Problem 5: a problem involving the general power rule.
• Problem 6: a problem involving the Mean Value Theorem.
• Problem 7: a problem involving first-order differential equations.
• Problem 8: a problem involving integration from De Morgan’s Differential and Integral Calculus.                 
• Problem 9: a problem involving a complicated integral.
• Problem 10: a problem involving second-order differential equations.