Ida was born in18151210, a famous British upper-class family. His father is Byron, a great poet, and his mother is Anne? Isabella? Annabella milbank is a lady with the title of Baroness Wentworth.
Byron may be an outstanding poet, but he is by no means a reliable husband and father. Byron was bohemian and passionate about poetry, women (and sometimes men) and alcohol. Anne's mother is a well-educated, pious and well-behaved woman. She is keen on social welfare and mathematics. Byron called her "Princess parallelogram". A few weeks after Ada was born, her parents divorced and Byron left England. Ida never saw her father again. When Ada was 8 years old, Byron died in the Greek War of Independence at the age of 36.
Ida's mother is afraid that her daughter will inherit her father's wild and unruly poet style. She hopes to "fight poison with poison" and suppress her daughter's poet gene with the power of mathematics.
Ida's mother even gave her daughter's nanny such an order: just tell her the truth and don't let any fictional and boring stories enter her mind.
In this way, Ida grew up …
At that time, most girls from noble families were keen on dancing in the ballroom and marrying a good husband, while Ida wanted to build a flying machine. She looked around for all kinds of new inventions, thought about how the steam engine provided power, studied the anatomical structure of birds, and found the wing size suitable for flying. In an era when mathematics belongs only to men, she devoted her passion to her favorite computer science.
Ida was sickly since she was a child, and she often had headaches and dizziness. She has severe measles. After nearly a year of training in bed, she still can't move. After a long period of rehabilitation, she gradually recovered her walking ability. During her life with her mother, Ada's education never stopped. Anna is convinced of the influence of education and strives to cultivate Ada's mathematical and scientific abilities. Mathematics occupies the vast majority of her life, and a solid mathematical foundation also provides strong support for Ada's research in the computer field. 1835, IDA and William? Kim got married in 1838 and became the Countess of lovelace.
/kloc-at the age of 0/7, Ada met Charles? Babbage (British mathematician, inventor and mechanical engineer. Because of the design concept of differential unit and analyzer, it is regarded as a computer pioneer? ) and participated in Babbage's differential expansion. When Ida met Babbage, his differential research failed again and again, and his self-help stopped, so he needed a lot of money to invest in the research. Ida doesn't have her own private money, so the need to earn some money in translating papers arises.
From 1842 to 1843, Ida spent nine months translating differential papers of Italian military engineers and added long notes. Her notes contain a set of Bernoulli number operations, which is considered to be the first computer program in the world.
Although Babbage has written some programs before, Ada's notes are the most detailed, and Ada's notes played a very important role in the early history of computer development. But more importantly, she understands that numbers can not only represent quantity, but also handle any information data that can be represented by numbers. She predicted: "This kind of machine can be used for typesetting, trimming or various more complicated purposes in the future." Ada's vision is ahead of her peers for a whole century.
Although most of Ada's misfortunes seem to come from her father, she eventually suffered from her mother's family hereditary disease. 1852, Ada, who was only 36 years old, lost a lot of blood to treat uterine cancer, leaving two sons and one daughter. According to her last words, she was buried next to her father.
In 1970s, the U.S. Department of Defense designed an efficient and secure computer language for its embedded computer system, which was finally named after "Ada" and became the famous "ADA" language.
In 2009, Suw Charman-Anderson, an advocate and journalist of the British social software open source movement, founded ada lovelace Day to celebrate her contribution to science and engineering. This festival lets us know more about women who devote themselves to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.