Lady ada augusta byron biography of rory

In , a book by the daughter of Lord Byron was sold at auction for the princely sum of £95, You would be forgiven for thinking that it was a previously unheard of volume of prose, or perhaps some unknown poem.

Instead, what was sold is universally recognised as the world’s first computer algorithm!

More specifically, it was the first edition of a body of work which contained the equation that is considered to be the world’s first ever computer algorithm.

Oh yes, and it was written by none other than Augusta Ada Byron, or as she is better known, Ada Lovelace.

It&#;s hard to believe that the world’s first computer programmer was the daughter of one of the most poetic (and debauched!) of Englishmen, and yet she absolutely was.

Ada Lovelace is recognised as the quintessential ‘Enchantress of Numbers’, and was the woman who developed the first inchoate computer program over years ago.

Ada was born on December 10th , the only legitimate child of Lord Byron and his wife (