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Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815&#173#821152), daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron and the
highly educated Anne Isabella, is sometimes called the world&#8217first computer programmer,
and she has become an icon for women in technology today. But how did a young woman in the
nineteenth century, without access to formal schooling or university education, acquire the
knowledge and expertise to become a pioneer of computer science? Although it was an unusual
pursuit for women at the time, Ada Lovelace studied science and mathematics from a young age.
This book uses previously unpublished archival material to explore her precocious
childhood&#8212frm her curiosity about the science of rainbows to her design for a steampowered
flying horse&#8212aswell as her ambitious young adulthood. Active in Victorian
London&#8217social and scientific elite alongside Mary Somerville, Michael Faraday, and Charles
Dickens, Ada Lovelace became fascinated by the computing machines of Charles Babbage,
whose ambitious, unbuilt invention known as the &#8220Anlytical Engine&#8221inspired Lovelace
to devise a table of mathematical formulae which many now refer to as the &#8220fist
program.&#8221 Ada Lovelace died at just thirty-six, but her work strikes a chord to this day,
offering clear explanations of the principles of computing, and exploring ideas about computer
music and artificial intelligence that have been realized in modern digital computers. Featuring
detailed illustrations of the &#8220fist program&#8221alongside mathematical models,
correspondence, and contemporary images, this book shows how Ada Lovelace, with astonishing
prescience, first investigated the key mathematical questions behind the principles of modern
computing.