She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation. He died in Greece when she was eight. Lady Byron was anxious about her daughter's upbringing and promoted Lovelace's interest in mathematics and logic in an effort to prevent her from developing her father's perceived insanity. Despite this, Lovelace remained interested in her father, naming her two sons Byron and Gordon.
Upon her death, she was buried next to her father at her request. Although often ill in her childhood, Lovelace pursued her studies assiduously. She married William King in Lovelace's educational and social exploits brought her into contact with scientists such as Andrew Crosse , Charles Babbage, Sir David Brewster , Charles Wheatstone and Michael Faraday , and the author Charles Dickens , contacts which she used to further her education.
When she was eighteen, Lovelace's mathematical talents led her to a long working relationship and friendship with fellow British mathematician Charles Babbage, who is known as "the father of computers". She was in particular interested in Babbage's work on the Analytical Engine. Between and , Lovelace translated an article by the military engineer Luigi Menabrea later Prime Minister of Italy about the Analytical Engine, supplementing it with an elaborate set of seven notes, simply called "Notes".
Lovelace's notes are important in the early history of computers , especially since the seventh one contained what many consider to be the first computer program—that is, an algorithm designed to be carried out by a machine.
Other historians reject this perspective and point out that Babbage's personal notes from to contain the first programs for the engine.
