The enchantress of numbers6/9/2023 Meanwhile her mother chose to keep little connection with her, possibly because young Ada reminded her of her devious husband, with whom the Baroness had an acrimonious divorce. Ada was abandoned by her father before she was a month old and resultantly never knew him, as he died abroad when she was eight. She had a miserable childhood, considered a disappointment from birth for not having been born a boy. Who was this woman in 19th century garb, scribbling mathematical functions with quill and ink? And so, by way of technological error, I learned of Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer.Īda Lovelace was born on December 10th, 1815, to the poet Lord Byron and his wife Anna Isabella Byron. But today, gmail just happened to crash, sending me to the Google homepage where I saw the below image: Sadly I’m usually behind the times on Google’s artistic and quirky depictions of special days via their homepage. I hope that her story inspires women in the sciences, or indeed anyone who perseveres to think beyond the capabilities of modern technology. Today I stray a little from the ordinary literary and educational news updates, after coming across a nod to an exceptional woman I couldn’t pass the day without commemorating, not only for her role in mathematics, but also for her role as a woman in mathematics, far ahead of her time. The curious tale of the world’s first computer programmer.
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