Comedy meets mathematics in a new opera at MIT : comparemela

MIT Senior Lecturer Elena Ruehr composed and premiered a comedic opera, "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage," imagining 19th-century thinkers Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage as crime-fighting sleuths.

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