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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1812 - 1852) daniel-hromada ()


Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1812 - 1852)

  • daughter of Lord Byron
  • mother promoted Ada's interest in mathematics and logics, student od Augustus de Morgan
  • associate of Charles Babbage ("Enchantress of Numbers")
  • author of the first computer program (algorithm for computation of Bernoulli numbers)
  • died young of uterine cancer