Ada Lovelace was a mathematician whose genius lay in her ability to see the future of computing. While translating a description of Charles Babbage’s 'Analytical Engine,' she added her own extensive notes, which ended up being longer than the original text. In these notes, she described a sequence of operations for the machine to calculate Bernoulli numbers—the world's first computer program. She uniquely understood that computers were not just 'number crunchers' but could manipulate any information represented by symbols, such as music or graphics. She called her approach 'poetical science,' blending her mathematical rigor with the creative imagination she inherited from her father, the poet Lord Byron.