Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and writer that lived in England in the
1800s. Between 1842-1843 she translated the work of an Italian
mathematician about a proposed steam-powered Analytical Engine. She added
a series of notes including an algorithm that could use the machine to
compute
Bernoulli’s numbers. That is widely considered to be the first line of computer code ever
written and is why she is credited with having invented programming.
She was the only child of poet Lord Byron and Lady Byron. Her educational
and social exploits brought her into contact with scientists such as
Andrew Crosse, Charles Babbage, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone,
Michael Faraday and the author Charles Dickens, contacts which she used to
further her education. Ada described her approach as "poetical science"
and herself as an "Analyst and Metaphysician".
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