Ada Lovelace was a British mathematician whose works paved the way to the development of computer science.

"The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value." - Ada Lovelace.

At a time when women empowerment didn't even emerge as a topic of discussion, there was a woman who dared to break all the barriers and prospered in the field of computer technology. Yes, we are talking about The Ada Lovelace whose contribution to the world of science and technology is immeasurable in the truest sense of the term. Being a genius mathematician, she started working with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine and went on to publish the first ever computer program in the history. Also, she was visionary enough to understand that these machines could achieve more than just pure calculations. Below are some interesting yet lesser-known facts about Ada Lovelace.

Ada Lovelace was born as Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, 1815 in England. Her father was Lord George Gordon Byron (the renowned Romantic poet) and mother was Anne Isabelle Milbanke.

Lord Byron was quite infamous as a human being. He didn't care much about his family and even left England when Ada was just months old. Anne Isabella Milbanke, being an extraordinary lady, made sure that her daughter would not become like her father. She even encouraged Ada to learn mathematics at a very young age.

Ada actually excelled in her studies and had a strong knowledge about number theory. In fact, she started developing a scientific way to fly at the age of 12. After studying extensively about the bird anatomy, she made some plans to construct a winged flying machine.

Ada Lovelace met the inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage at the age of 17. Later in 1842, while working with Babbage, she translated a French transcript of Babbage’s lecture into English. After that, she went on to translate Luigi Menabrea's paper on Babbage’s theoretical analytical engine into English. She added her own ideas about computing machines in the article and published it in an English journal in 1843. In Note G, she wrote an algorithm which could be used for the Analytical Engine to compute a sequence of Bernoulli numbers. This is considered as the first computer program ever written in the history.

As previously mentioned, Lovelace predicted that the computers could be used for more than just solving mathematical calculations. She understood that it's possible to translate contents including text, picture, music, sound etc. into digital form by these machines. Unfortunately, these ideas didn't gain any attention at that time. So, we can conclude that she envisioned the multi-tasking features of modern computers.