![]() ![]() ![]() Lovelace translated an article by Luigi Menabrea from Italian about the machine, adding her own, inventive notes. Babbage was clearly amused by her talent and analytic skills, so he let her look inside the almost finished computing machine he was working on. She was introduced to Babbage at the age of 17 by her friend, Mary Somerville, a Scottish astronomer and mathematician. Her mother, being afraid that the young girl would have the same artistic and “dangerous mental tendencies” as her father, started to guide her towards mathematics and science. All this in the middle of the 19th century, aristocratic England.Īugusta Ada King or as we know her today, Ada Lovelace was the one and only legitimate child of the famous poet, Lord Byron, born in 1815. But beyond being the first person (and a woman) to write a computer program, she was also a writer, a translator, a mathematician and had a brilliant analyst mind. She was the first person who realized that “computing machines” have more possibilities than just calculating, so she programmed an algorithm intended to be carried out by the machine. ![]() ![]() She could be called the mother of programming, but Babbage called her "The Enchantress of Number". If you ever heard of Charles Babbage, the English polymath, also known as “the father of computers”, then you probably heard the name Ada Lovelace too. ![]()
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