THE MOST IMPORTANT BEAUTIFUL OF THEM ALL (ADA LOVELACE DAY)

How I wish I could be in the O2 arena tonight in London to report on the Justin Bieber concert! I really love Justin Bieber. 💝💖❤️ I can't report on the concert, but I can still write in The Lipstick Papers, about Ada Lovelace, whose day it is today.

Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron. He had illegitimate daughters as well (i.e. daughters born outside marriage. Happily we don't have this patriarchal distinction anymore). One of those daughters he had with his half sister Augusta. (Yes, Byron was naughty). In fact, Ada's full name is Augusta Ada. For Byron, his half sister was the love of his life.

Anyway, back to Ada. She was a mathematician, and, together with Charles Babbage, they worked on a machine and on the formation of an algorithm that were to be the foundation of the computer. As the New Yorker magazine put it on Twitter today, Ada was "the first known computer programmer". She is also the (undeclared) patron Saint of mathematicians, computer scientists and "those deleted from history" (philosophersguild.com). The website Brain Pickings also has an interesting article on Ada.

Though maths is not my subject at all, I fully appreciate the importance of Ada Lovelace for women's history. In an era which claimed that women were all heart and emotion, but weak on logic and sense, a successful woman mathematician proved everyone wrong.

Enjoy Ada Lovelace day! We are all unique and have our special talents, whether we are male or female! And whether history deletes us or not, the most important thing is to be and stay beautiful- beautiful on the inside, which is the most important beautiful of them all 💝😎❤️
P.S. And good luck to my baby Justin Bieber at the arena tonight! xxx

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