![]() ![]() Navigation, insurance, and other fields were coming to depend on tables of figures that required repeated calculations, but these calculations, done by hand, often contained errors. At a party in 1833 she met mathematician Charles Babbage, who had invented a machine that he called a difference engine. Byron's flamboyant lifestyle had put him completely at odds with the quiet but equally strong-willed Annabella, whose love of mathematics made Byron call her the “Princess of Parallelograms.” (Ada, in turn, was sometimes called “the Enchantress of Numbers.”)Īda, tutored extensively at home, shared her mother's fondness for mathematics. The short, stormy marriage between her father, George Gordon, Lord Byron, the famous British poet, and her mother, the former Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, ended a month after Ada's birth, when Byron departed, never to see his daughter again. She was born Augusta Ada Byron in London on December 10, 1815. ![]() Even though they were written 100 years before electronic computers were invented, Ada Lovelace's instructions for Charles Babbage's “analytical engine” have been called the world's first computer programs. ![]()
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