Before starting this film, intrigued as I was by her story, I questioned if Ada Lovelace truly deserved the pedestal on which she has been placed by modern scientists and mathematicians.
Lovelace is credited with being the world ... put upon a rich heiresses of the day to become a visionary mathematician. Ada tells her own story, and she has a captivating voice.
Lovelace was a prodigious math talent who learned from the giants of her time, but her linguistic and creative abilities were also important in her invention of computer programming.
When he was older, he became an expert mathematician. And just like Ada Lovelace, he started thinking about how machines that could do maths might work. In 1936, he had an amazing idea.
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate and encourage women in the fields of science and technology. The day is named after “Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace, born Byron”, or ...