More than 150 years after her death, a widely used scientific computer program was named "Ada" after Ada Lovelace. But why?
Ada Lovelace is the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron, one of the best-known poets of English Romanticism. Her father's outrageous behavior, indebtedness and scandalous divorce made Ada the most famous child in Georgian England immediately after her birth. Later, Ada overcomes many obstacles to complete mathematical studies, which at that time were still closed to women, and then joining forces with the scientist Charles Babbage, the inventor of a mechanical device considered the forerunner of the computer, writes the world's first computer program.
This gripping biography recounts the now unfathomable era when the popularity of mathematics rivaled that of knitting among women, and Ada became the world's first computer programmer. According to Essinger, if women had not been completely underestimated and her contemporaries had recognized the importance of her research and its consequences, then Ada would have started the digital age with her own hands, more than two centuries earlier.