Ada Lovelace
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Who Was Ada Lovelace?
The daughter of famed poet Lord Byron, Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace — better known as "Ada Lovelace" — showed her gift for mathematics at an early age. She translated an article on an invention by Charles Babbage, and added her own comments. Because she introduced many computer concepts, Lovelace is considered the first computer programmer. She died on November 27,
Early Years
Ada Lovelace, born as Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, , was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron. Lord Byron's marriage to Lovelace's mother, Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, was not a happy one. Lady Byron separated from her husband only weeks after their daughter was born. A few months later, Lord Byron left England, and Lovelace never saw her father again. He died in Greece when Ada was 8 years old.
Lovelace had an unusual upbringing for an aristocratic girl in the mids. At her mother's insistence, tutors taught her mathematics and science. Such challenging subjects were not standard fare for women at the time, but her mother believed that engaging in rigorous studies would prevent Lovelace from de
A sting in the Achilles' heel
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Michael and Melissa Bakewell tell their story with relish. Augusta Leigh was at the heart of what the Victorians chose to call the ''Byron Mystery''. Without her there might have been no separation, no exile, no tragic death in the fever-ridden swamps of Missolonghi. She was, they add somewhat sensationally, ''doomed to be her half-brother's Achilles' heel and the instrument of his fall''.
Augusta Leigh's eighteenth and nineteenth-century family makes today's bad boys of rock look like milksops. Augusta's father was ''Mad Jack'' Byron, a handsome, aristocratic libertine, whose reckless affair with Amelia (already married to the Duke of Carmarthen and mother of three children), resulted in her pregnancy and divorce. Having married her, Mad Jack spent Amelia's money and neglected her. Their only surviving child was Augusta, born in
After Amelia's death, Jack married but soon abandoned the reputedly unstable Scot Catherine Gordon, another heiress (of course). He eventually expired after much alcohol abuse and philandering, including an incestuous affair with his sister France
Augusta Ada King (Née Byron), Lady Lovelace
Born December 15, , London, England; died November , London, England; student, friend, confidante, and interpreter of the work of Charles Babbage, and the first conceptual programmer of his Analytical Engine.
Ada was a gift from the gods to so rigorous a subject as the history of mathematics (or computer science). Beautiful, charming, temperamental, her own life a minor tragedy, as Byron's daughter she acquired the romance that attaches to everyone associated with that magnificent poéte maudit.
Ada's mathematical work does not provide her with a position in the history of mathematics, except for her association with Charles Babbage. Ada's mother, the odious Lady Noel Byron, took her to Babbage's house in , but it was only some years after Ada married Lord King (later Earl of Lovelace) that she began to see a great deal of Babbage. He was addicted to the company of beautiful and intelligent women, and for more than a decade she played an important part in his life.
Ada was an enthusiastic student of mathematics, becoming proficient at a time when it was exceedingly rare for a woman to do so. She was an aris
Ada Byron, also known as Lady Lovelace, was the daughter of Lord Byron and one of the most picturesque characters in computer prehistory. Her parents separated five weeks after her birth and she was raised by her mother (neé Annabella Milbanke), whom Lord Byron had called his "Princess of Parallelograms" because of her interest in mathematics and who was determined that Ada would become a mathematician and scientist, not a poet like her father. Ada, however, managed to combine both worlds, blending her science with poetical vision and her mathematics with metaphor.
At the age of 17 she was introduced to Mary Somerville, a remarkable woman who translated Laplace's works into English, and whose texts were used at Cambridge (where a women's college is now named after her). It was at one of Mary Somerville's dinner parties, in November , that Ada first heard of Charles Babbage's ideas for a new calculating machine, the Analytical Engine, and was immediately intrigued. In , married and the mother of three children, Ada translated a French article about the Engine and showed it Babbage. He suggested that she add her own notes, which turned out to be three times the len
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