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- Ada was born into a world of poetry, but numbers, not words, captured her imagination.her mother, Lady Byron, had a passion for geometry. In fact, her nickname was The Princess of Parallelograms.
- The sky darkened and thunder crashed. Rain pounded on the roof and pelted through the open window. Ada jumped to latch the shutters. The curtains flapped in and out, like sails billowing in the wind. Sails! Sails were like wings! Ada could use this wind to do an experiment for her flying machine. She grabbed her journal and charged out into the howling storms.
- By morning, Ada had a high fever. Nanny didn't scold now. She was worried. She cabled Mama to come home right away. Ada had the measles. Through many long days and nights, Mama read Ada her favorite books. The fever finally broke, but the measles left her paralyzed and blind. To keep Ada's mind sharp, Mama quizzed her on math problems. How much was eighty-two minus twenty-five? Eighteen times forty-seven? Ninety-six divided by thirteen? Numbers chased each other around and around in Ada's head.
- Mama recognized her daughter's passion. She hired tutors so Ada could learn math at an even higher level. Ada's favorite was Mary Fairfax Somerville, the well-known scientist and mathematician. Somerville was living proof that girls could do math and do it well. She had even written books on the subject, another thing girls were not supposed to do.
- Somerville was so impressed by Ada's sharp reasoning skills, she invited Ada and her mother to a party. Not just a party for dancing and dining, but for sharing ideas. The guests were scientists like Michael faraday, who studied electromagnetism, and Charles Wheatstone, who invented a device to display three-dimensional images.
- But for Ada, the one who mattered the most was Charles Babbage. He was a famous mathematician and inventor, just like Ada wanted to be. Though she was only seventeen and Babbage forty-one, Ada spoke about math with a precision and understanding that impressed him. So much so, that Babbage invented her to visit his laboratory.
- Ada brought her journals to show him her own experiments and inventions. Their tea grew cold as they talked about their love of machines and mathematics. Babbage didn't see her as simply a young girl. He treated her like the fellow mathematician and inventor she already was. Before, numbers had been Ada's only friends. Now Babbage was a friend as well.
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