--- title: "The Life of Ada Lovelace" description: "The story of how Ada Lovelace, mathematician, visionary, and the world's first computer programmer, inspired the name of a fine lab diamond jeweler." canonical: "https://www.adadiamonds.com/knowledge-base/the-life-of-ada-lovelace" author: "Ada Diamonds" last-updated: "2023-06-14" --- # The Life of Ada Lovelace > The story of how Ada Lovelace, mathematician, visionary, and the world's first computer programmer, inspired the name of a fine lab diamond jeweler. **Author:** Ada Diamonds ยท **Published:** 2023-06-14 ## The Life of Ada Lovelace The story of how Ada Lovelace, mathematician, visionary, and the world's first computer programmer, inspired the name of a fine lab diamond jeweler. Ada Diamonds is named for August Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. She was a 19th century mathematician, mother, musician, and computer scientist, known to her contemporaries as the Enchantress of Numbers. A preeminent scholar in London, she collaborated with and regularly challenged some of the era's sharpest minds: Charles Babbage, Michael Faraday, Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin. She is widely credited as the world's first computer programmer, for her work calculating Fibonacci numbers on Babbage's Analytical Engine. ![Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine](https://content.adadiamonds.com/image/upload/v1691540724/babbage-analytical-engine_1509226067243-5620OHJH9NJHBCK3CC9G.jpg) When Ada looked at Babbage's machine, she saw more than mathematics. She saw the possibility of art, music, and symbolic logic. Where others saw a calculator, she saw a language. In her notes, she wrote that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns the way a loom weaves flowers and leaves. She went further, imagining a machine that could one day compose music of any degree of complexity. She called this union of logic and imagination "poetic science." It's an idea we return to often. ![Lab diamond letter pendant necklaces](https://content.adadiamonds.com/image/upload/v1774740349/lab-diamond-letter-pendant-necklaces_ywcjoe.jpg) Augusta Ada Byron was born in 1815, the daughter of a mathematician and a poet. She married William, 8th Baron King, in 1835, and became the Countess of Lovelace when he was elevated to the Earldom in 1838. She signed her correspondence "Augusta Ada Lovelace" or simply "AAL." She had three children. She died in 1852, at 36, of uterine cancer. Her colleagues recognized what she was doing before history did. Babbage called her the Enchantress who had "thrown her magical spell around the most abstract of Sciences." Others praised her capacity to translate his work in ways no one else could. At Ada Diamonds, we chose her name deliberately. The idea of poetic science, of bringing rigorous precision and genuine beauty together under one roof, is what we try to do every day. Lab grown diamonds are, in their own way, exactly that: science that produces something extraordinary. We think she would have found that interesting. **About Ada Diamonds** --- Canonical URL: