Ada Lovelace loved math and had a huge imagination. Long before modern computers existed, she wrote what many people call the world's very first computer program!
Quick facts
- Born
- 10 December 1815, London, England
- Famous for
- Writing the first computer program
- Known for
- Mixing math with imagination
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Math and dreams
Ada loved numbers, but she also had a big imagination. She called her special way of thinking “poetical science.”
The first program
She worked on plans for an early calculating machine and wrote careful step-by-step instructions for it — the first computer program ever written.
Seeing the future
Ada imagined that machines might one day make music and pictures, not just sums. She was right — that is exactly what computers do today!
“Imagination is the discovering faculty.” — Ada Lovelace
Why we remember Ada
Ada Lovelace shows that math and imagination make a wonderful team. She was a pioneering woman in science, like Marie Curie.