Advent of the Algorithm The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer

Name: Advent of the Algorithm The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer
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ISBN: 9780156013918

ISBN-10: 0156013916

ISBN-13: 9780156013918

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: David Berlinski

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Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds of the greatest thinkers in the world, the algorithm is what made the modern world possible. Without the algorithm, there would have been no computer, no Internet, no virtual reality, no e-mail, or any other technological advance that we rely on every day. In The Advent of the Algorithm, David Berlinski combines science, history, and math to explain and explore the intriguing story of how the algorithm was finally discovered by a succession of mathematicians and logicians, and how this paved the way for the digital age. Beginning…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Preface: The Digital Bureaucrat


Introduction: The Jeweler's Velvet



The Marketplace of Schemes



Under the Eye of Doubt



Bruno the Fastidious



Cargoload and Crack-Up



Hilbert Takes Command



Godel in Vienna



The Dangerous Discipline



Flight into Abstraction



The Imaginary Machine



Postscript



The Peacock of Reason



Time Against Time



An Artifact of Mind



A World of Many Gods



The Cross of Words


Epilogue: The Idea of Order at Key West


Acknowledgments


Index