few days ago I got the following message on Facebook, a colleague of mine:
In a time when the press, voyeuristic and morbid, seems to attribute to women as the only profession
"the oldest work the world "; rediscover the great women of the past, to allow to those in this to have different patterns of identification and do not inhibit the development of those of the future. Choose a great woman of history and use the photo in your profile. Forward this message to as many 'women know!
I did not have a lot to think about before you go searching on the Web this photo:
Who is this woman?
Ada Lovelace.
Ada was the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron, but most importantly it is recognized as the first computer programmer in history.
happens that the poet Lord Byron married Anne Isabella Milbank, mathematics (as well as heiress). The combination of the two pigeons is not that it was just this great success, in fact, so much so that the two are not even arrived to celebrate the first wedding anniversary.
And the fact is that one month after the birth of little Ada, the poet returned to you wife and daughter, future math mathematics. With hindsight, who could blame him?
In fact, let's face it, a woman and a poet mathematics (pure mathematics with daughter and future)? But
go, come on, just could not bear to do, and there was not even need a crystal ball, I'll would have predicted an informed anyone ...
Anyway, Ada grows without ever having seen or known His father, who died when she was only 9 years old. Needless to say, Ada's mother had it to death with her ex-husband and was terrified that the daughter might be interested in poetry. To avoid this disturbing, so immoderate Ada pushes towards mathematics and science.
Evidently she had brought these matters and continues to willingly school, to university, where he stands and more loudly that the original, considering the age.
Even before her marriage to William King, Earl of Lovelace, Charles Babbage and Ada know is fascinated by his ideas and his work. This leads to a correspondence and collaboration between the two which led to Ada to define an algorithm for calculating Bernoulli numbers, which was to be made by Babbage's analytical engine (which already had a structure similar to that of the Turing machine). This algorithm Ada is recognized as the first program in history. It is for this reason that Ada is considered by many as the mother of programming.
addition to that with Babbage, Ada has maintained correspondence, contacts and exchange ideas with other British scientists, including Michael Faraday.
Ada died of cancer at age 36 and asked to be buried near his father, who had never met and who had always lived away.
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