Origin of Ada's Passion

Although Ada and her father had different intellectual interests, they ressembled each other. According to Baum, certain Byronic qualities in Ada did not escape the notice of the observant named Fonblanque who wrote after Ada's death that "poetic temperament" is the one trait Ada shared with her father. Ada's statement in a letter she sent to Greig about not being able to find anything in the world to compare her "powerful and vivid imagination" showed the poetic attribute she inherited.

Ada was known as being well-mannered, gregarious and fascinating. At the same time, she could also appear eccentric, solitary and capricious. She was interested in horses. She was attracted to men of science such as Andrew Crosse. She enjoyed the thought of living adventurously. As much as she wanted to keep on working, after 1843, she could not find a project that inspired her.

At the beginning of 1844, she started having different medical difficulties such as back pains, kidney problems. Two years later, she began having gastritis and asthma attacks. There were periods of good health in 1851 that she enjoyed by going hiking. By the beginning of 1852, she was diagnosed with uterine cancer which caused agonizing pain that could not be relieved by drugs. She died in November 27, 1852. She was thirty-six years old. Ada's passion for mathematics was authentic. She could be seen as a small fragment in the history of computer, but she earned the title of first programmer by working hard and being passionate about science.