top five historical lady badasses: augusta ada king, countess of lovelace (england, 1815-1852AD)
“This gifted mathematician was brought up studying science with tutors provided by her mother, Anne Isabelle Milbanke, Lady Byron, who hoped to constrain any family taint of the girl’s father’s poetic tendencies with an education that stressed logic and rigor. Ada Lovelace seems to have relished the mathematics but rejected the moralizing by hoping to do ‘poetic science’.” (I. Stamhuis)
And for luck: harkavagrant’s Young Ada Lovelace