She was the daughter
of
Lord Byron
The english poet
and his wife
Anne Isabella Milbanke

Ada Lovelace
left her father
in her very
early years

And never saw him again

But yet she was
his only known child
He died at age 36
when she was only nine

And her mother
The Lady Byron
She
made her daughter
make her way in mathematics
and music

As young as 17
she
had the wellknown mathematician
and astronomer Mary Sommerville
as her teacher

And through her
Ada Lovelace learnt to know
the famous professor of mathematics, of Cambridge,
Charles Babbage
And her studies where
intensified

And Charles Babbage called her
"The Enchantress of Numbers".
In a letter, he wrote 1843, you can read the
following sentence:

"Forget this world and all its troubles and if
possible its multitudinous Charlatans — every thing
in short but the Enchantress of Numbers."


But even though she studied intensively
she also married great
a man called William King
and so she turned out to be
the Countess of Lovelace

Three children
she gave birth to
And yet she went on
with her studies
of mathematics

Evil tongues
they said about her
that she prefered
the mathematics
to her children...

In the year 1842 to 1843
she came to translate
an article
written by Luigi Menabrea
all about Charles Babbage´s
newest proposed machine

A machine that would
be able to make
analythic calculating
and would be able to be
programmated
It never was constructed then, though..

Ada Lovelace added to the translation she made
very detailed notes,
of her own
that were even more detailed
than the article itself..

And there in her notes,
you also can find
a method for calculating
a sequence of Bernoulli numbers with the Engine

And this is seen
as the forrunner
to the computers of our time..

This all was publiced in the year 1843,
when she was in the age of 27

Not until the year 1991
the machine was built
following Babbages designing

And it was revealed that his ideas worked..!

This is considered as the forerunner
to the computer of our time..

And Ada Lovelace is now seen as being the first computer programmer..

Ada Lovelace died
at age 36
like her father
the poet Lord Byron
She was burried
in the same grave as him
because that was what
she wanted.


Källor:

En Ada som var alla programmeringars moder
av Ingrid Börge, Göteborgsposten 2011-01-09 s. 90

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

För vidare läsning se även:

http://www.thocp.net/biographies/lovelace_ada.html

Computer history, where Ada Loveloce of course also is mentioned..
Och massa vackra fascinerande bilder av datorutveckling....:)
http://www.plyojump.com/classes/pre_1945.html