Ada Lovelace, the mathematician who wrote the earliest known algorithm.

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

🎨🔬She was literally the daughter of art and science.

👾 Although her father, the poet Lord Byron, may be the more well-known of the pair, it was Ada Lovelace’s mother, Annabella Milbanke, who acted as the role model for her daughter’s iconoclastic and pioneering contributions to the field of computer science.

When Ada was twelve, she began studying what she called flyology – the mechanics of flight.

🔭 Lady Byron encouraged Ada’s interest and aptitude in science and mathematics and shared her own love of astronomy and geometry, raising a young woman who came to be called “the Enchantress of Numbers” by her colleague and friend, British inventor Charles Babbage.

Babbage created the Analytical Engine, the first mechanical computer and Ada saw the machine’s potential: that it could eventually go beyond number crunching to process text, images and music.

⭐️🔢 Ada, already a mathematician wrote the earliest known algorithm made to be carried out by The Analytical Engine.

Ada Lovelace became then widely recognized as the first computer programmer - the "Mother of Computer Programming".

Biography notes:

📍12/10/1815-11/27/1852 London UK
Self described poetical scientist, mother scientist, visionary, first ever computer program,  lady fairy, technology, computing, programming — for her Math is poetry.

Her Quotes:

“Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.”

If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

Imagination is the discovering faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the seen worlds around us, the worlds of science.

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

The iconic tea flavor “Earl Grey” was invented during the Countess of Lovelace’s lifetime, and its heady aroma reminds us of her highly cerebral character.

When we decided to create a tea based upon her personality, the strong yet poetic blend of bergamot oil with black tea was ideally suited.

🍵 Tea inspired by this remarkable woman:

Enchantress of Numbers Tea