Before starting this film, intrigued as I was by her story, I questioned if Ada Lovelace truly deserved the pedestal on which she has been placed by modern scientists and mathematicians.

When he was older, he became an expert mathematician. And just like Ada Lovelace, he started thinking about how machines that could do maths might work. In 1936, he had an amazing idea.

Lovelace was a prodigious math talent who learned from the giants of her time, but her linguistic and creative abilities were also important in her invention of computer programming.

Lovelace, on the other hand, married a count and had a great deal of money, but very little agency. "Her writing about mathematics wasn't credited to her," Sisk said. "Men were allowed into ...

Here’s how you can secure your tickets. Named after the pioneering mathematician recognised as the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace Day was founded in 2009 as a way of ...