Ada Lovelace, a encantadora de números

Authors

  • Adriana Ibaldo Universidade de Brasília - UnB
  • Cíntia Schwantes Universidade de Brasília - UnB

Keywords:

Ada Lovelace. Literature. Mathematics. Programming

Abstract

Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate daughter of her (in)famous father, poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Her parents divorced when she was scarcely months old and she never met him. More than that, she was raised to prevent any surfacing of hereditary insanity her mother felt she was at risk of having. Thus, she had an extensive mathematical education. Her life developed inside what was expected for a woman of her social position, in her time, with a differential: her huge talent and her unlikely friendship with Charles Babbage. Due to those facts, Ada would become the first Computer programmer in history.

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Author Biography

Adriana Ibaldo, Universidade de Brasília - UnB

Professora do Instituto de Física da Universidade de Brasília - UnB.

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Published

2017-08-25

How to Cite

Ibaldo, A., & Schwantes, C. (2017). Ada Lovelace, a encantadora de números. Revista XIX, 1(4), 162–176. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaXIX/article/view/21765