Ada Lovelace Day -- this year October 8

      The second Tuesday in October has been selected as Ada Lovelace Day -- a time for celebrating that pioneering woman and all women in STEM.

     Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, better known as Ada Lovelace  (December 10, 1815–November 27, 1852) -- and daughter of the poet Lord Byron -- is celebrated as the world’s first computer programmer, the first person to combine the mathematical capabilities of computational machines with the poetic possibilities of symbolic logic (applied with clever imagination).  (Many more biographical details  may be found at this link.)  And here is a link to an interesting article by Johns Hopkins voice Meghana Ravi entitled "Ada Lovelace found poetry in computer algorithms."

     I have posted poetry about Ada Lovelace several times in this blog; here is a link to those past postings.  The following poetic words -- by Ada Lovelace  -- concerning translation of mathematical principles into practical forms -- were first posted back in September of 2015. 

       Those who view mathematical science,
       not merely as a vast body
       of abstract and immutable truths,
       whose intrinsic beauty, symmetry and logical completeness,
       when regarded in their connexion together as a whole,
       entitle them to a prominent place 
       in the interest of all profound and logical minds, . . .   

Here is a link to the complete  Lovelace posting from September 18, 2015.

In case you haven't seen it, a fun-to-read collection of clerihews that celebrate math-women -- including Ada Lovelace -- may be found here in a recent issue of the online Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.