Ada Lovelace was a mathematician who created the “first computer program”. Lovelace was born on December 10, 1815, in London, United Kingdom. Her parents were George Gordon and Anna Isabella Milbanke. She had a career as a mathematician. Lovelace is known for the computer programming she does with Charles Babbage. She died on November 27, 1852, in the United Kingdom. Two influences in Ada Lovelace’s carrier as a mathematician were her family and Charles Babbage.

First, when Lovelace was very young her family introduced to math and science. Only a short time after Lovelace was born her parents got divorced. This caused her father to leave and Lovelace never saw him again. This is the reason why Lovelace’s mother to think he was not dependable (“Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace”). When Lovelace’s mother never saw her husband again she knew he was not ready to become a father, and this caused her to get Lovelace tutored in mathematics: “Lord Byron was unprepared for the commitments of marriage and fatherhood. In the hours before his daughter’s birth, he threw furniture around the room. When Ada Byron was only a month old, her mother took her and fled from his household” (“Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace”). Lovelace’s mother worried about her becoming very dramatic and emotional like her father. Her mother did not think Lovelace’s father was a very dependable man (“Ada Lovelace”). Lovelace’s mother loved math which caused her to get Lovelace tutored in math and science. The tutoring was very helpful because at the age of five she was able to add six rows of numbers (“Ada Lovelace”). Lovelace’s family being “unusual” is one of the reasons she began to love math and science.

In addition to Lovelace’s family, Charles Babbage is a computer programmer and mathematician who helped Lovelace find her interest in computer programming. Babbage was a scientist who encouraged Lovelace to become a scientist. Babbage studied the principles of modern computers. Since Babbage studied computers that is what he taught Lovelace (“Ada Lovelace”). Lovelace met Charles Babbage at a party. They soon became friends because Lovelace wanted to learn about his Analytical Engine (“Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace”). One way Babbage helped Ada was getting her a tutor to advance her mathematical knowledge. Her tutor, Augustus De Morgan, taught Ada “mathematical subjects” like calculus (“Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace”). Babbage was not the only man who thought Lovelace was smart: “Byron’s intellect, but feared her studies might strain her delicate female nervous system.” (Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace”). When Lovelace went to Italy with Babbage, someone published a story, but it was written in French. This article was the first thing ever written about Babbage’s work. They asked Lovelace to translate the article into English, but she made her own notes making this more important than the actual article (“Ada Lovelace”).  After she re-wrote the article it described the computer program Babbage was creating. This article gave Lovelace the credit of writing the first computer program (“Ada Lovelace”). Babbage was the person who helped Lovelace learn her to learn the knowledge about computers.

Altogether, Lovelace’s family and Charles Babbage influenced Lovelace to become a  mathematician. When Lovelace’s father left her life, and it caused Lovelace’s mother to get her tutored in mathematics and science. Her mother chose math and science because her father was a poet, and she did not want Lovelace to become dramatic. Charles Babbage showed Ada what computer programming was and helped her go to classes to learn necessary programming. Babbage also was the person’s research she translated to write the program. Ada Lovelace is still significant because the notes she took from that article had the “U.S. Department of Defense named the software ‘Ada’”.