![]() ![]() ![]() She was fascinated to see the machine and visited him often. A few days later, Babbage invited her to see the model for his Difference Engine. ![]() Somerville also introduced her to Charles Babbage in June 1833. Many eminent mathematicians and scientists of the 19th century, including the Scottish mathematician and science writer, Mary Somerville, home schooled Ada in mathematics and science. She was named Augusta but Byron called her “Ada.” Byron separated from his wife, Anne Isabella ‘Annabella’ Milbanke, when Ada was one month old. She wrote a step-by-step procedure, an algorithm, in 1843 to compute Bernoulli numbers on the Analytical Engine, the calculating machine designed by her mentor and ‘The Father of Computers’, Charles Babbage.īorn on December 10, 1815, Ada was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, one of the greatest and most widely read British poets. It is a little known fact that a woman, Augusta Ada King Byron, is recognised as the world’s first computer programmer. ![]()
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