Ada Lovelace Research Paper

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Ada Lovelace, born Augusta Ada Byron in December of 1815, was an English born mathematician and scientist. Born to the English poet, George Gordon Byron, and his wife, Anne Isabella Byron who separated a month after Lovelace's birth. The separation caused her father to move out of England and out of her life from infancy until just before he died of pancreatic cancer at age thirty six. Throughout her lifetime she, at her mother's insistence, intensively studied science and math rather than having a main focus in literature. Lovelace went on to begin a correspondence with Charles Babbage in 1833, two years before she married William King at age nineteen and became the countess of lovelace. She met Babbage with her mother at a party. He invited them to visit his lab to see the Difference Engine; this meeting sparked a friendship that lasted until her death in 1852. Seven years after her …show more content…
In doing so she added her own set of notes to it and developed the world's very first computer program (Vestey). Lovelace was gifted from a young age in mathematics and science and her studies gave her a leg up in the scientific and mathematical world, allowing her to translate a paper that would detail the machine that would become a model for the future of computers. When ,in 1842, Charles Babbage came to Lovelace with the task of translating a paper written on his Analytical Engine for him she readily agreed. He believed she not only understood the machine as well as him, but that she could articulate the Engines purpose better than he (“Ada Lovelace”). Within Ada Lovelace's translation of Luigi Federico Menabreas paper she detailed not
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