Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was born in England in 1815 and immediately famous as the daughter of the poet Lord Byron. When Lord Byron left the family shortly after Ada was born, she was brought up by her mother Anne Isabella Milbanke who was an educational reformer and known for establishing the first industrial school in England. She encouraged Ada's interest in mathematics and logic in the hopes that she would not develop her father's perceived insanity.
Ada became a mathematician and writer. She worked with the pioneer of computer science Charles Babbage and became a household name in the field of the history of mathematics when her work was published as an appendix to her translation of a paper by Luigi Menabrea on the topic of her friend Charles Babbage’s ‘Analytical Engine’, when she recognised that it could be used for more than just pure calculation.
