Google Doodle celebrates 197th birth anniversary of Ada Lovelace

Google Doodle today celebrates the 197th birth anniversary of Ada Lovelace, the popular 19th century mathematician and daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron.

 The doodle shows Ada Lovelace writing the pioneering computer program with a quill pen seated on a desk and the paper scroll she is writing her algorithm on twirls in the shape of the letters of the Google logo.

While she was educated at home by tutors, her mathematical skills were further honed by Augustus De Morgan, the first professor of mathematics at the University of London, who helped her in advanced studies.

Her association with Charles Babbage, father of the computer, began when she translated an article by Italian mathematician and engineer Luigi Federico on Babbage proposed Analytical Engine. She not only translated the work but added her notes that were more elaborate and longer than the work she was translating.

First program that Ada Lovelace created for the Analytical Engine to present day laptops and tablet PCs.

Ada Lovelace died at the young age of 36 on November 27, 1852 of uterine cancer.