Ada Lovelace 1815-1852 "The analytical machine will weave algebraic
patterns such as Jacquard's looms weave flowers and leaves. ”
Ada
Lovelace, Note A, 1843 Ada King, née Byron, Countess Lovelace, was born
on 10 December 1815 in London. At a very young age, she began to study
mathematics. She rose to a level sufficient to appreciate the work of a
talented inventor, Charles Babbage. The latter has just developed an
automatic computer. Ada looks at these complex workings and an intuition
comes to her: what if, instead of handling only numbers, this device
also dealt with symbols? She puts her own intuition: this will be the
famous "Note G", published in 1843, the first computer program in the
world. Ada will never know that she was awesome. She died at the age of
36 on 27 November 1852.
Almost
a century later, an American physicist named Howard Aiken makes a
machine from Babbage gears and Ada Lovelace notes: the Mark I. This one
will have a large progeny: computers. In 1978, the new computer language
of the U.S. Department of Defense was named Ada. Ada Lovelace finally
stopped being a footnote in her father's biographies. Ada ardently
defended the idea of "poetic science". Merging science and poetry within
the same vision, she dreamed of a machine that would be able to speak
of previously unknown languages. She imagined computer science, she
pulled it out of nothing at a time when our modernity was barely
awakening. His work, a fragile flower blooming in the mists of
romanticism, rose like a sun in the second half of the 20th century and
illuminated the third millennium. By shaping our future, Ada Lovelace
has marked our civilization as much as Pastor, Einstein or Fleming.
Catherine Dufour
The
stamp is issued on the day of "Ada Lovelace day" Every year, on the
second Tuesday of October, this event celebrates innovative women in
computer science.
Specifications:
- Printing technique - Heliogravure
- Face value - 1.65
- Theme - Famous People
- Type of physical product - Beautiful single stamps
- Nature of sending - International letter
- Type of bonding - Gummed
- Shipment destination - International
- Maximum weight - 20g
- Legal notices - Creation Sylvie Patte & Tanguy Besset, from ap.photo Alamy/Abacapress.com
- Author - PATTE Sylvie - BESSET Tanguy
- Issue date - 10/12/2022
- Format - 30 x 40.85 mm
- Number of stamps per presentation - 1
- Permanent validity - No