Ada Lovelace found her passion in math after attending a lecture by Charles Babbage. She published a paper on his Analytical Engine earning a legacy as the world's first computer programmer.
Sign UpAda Byron was on her best behavior when first presented to the British Royal Court — though she found the event and its attendees to be underwhelming. A few weeks later, however, the 17-year-old accompanied her mother to a mathematics lecture.Within the next decade, she married and became Ada King, Countess of Lovelace.
The lecture that inspired Lovelace was given by mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage. He had invented the, a type of calculator meant to take a specific formula and compute successive values. Babbage was also working on the Analytic Engine, which he hoped would be a general-purpose calculator that could vary the type of formulas it computed.
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