Turing's Cathedral The Origins of the Digital Universe

Name: Turing's Cathedral The Origins of the Digital Universe
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ISBN: 9781400075997

ISBN-10: 1400075998

ISBN-13: 9781400075997

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Authors: George Dyson

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“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. InTuring’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers thatmeanthings and numbers thatdothings—and our universe would never be the same. Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both…

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List price: $25.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.95" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

George Dyson, the son of distinguished physicist Freeman Dyson, grew up immersed in the world of groundbreaking science. Dyson lives in Washington State.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Principal Characters



1953



Olden Farm



Veblen's Circle



Neumann Jï¿½nos



MANIAC



Fuld 219



6J6



V-40



Cyclogenesis



Monte Carlo



Ulam's Demons



Barricelli's Universe



Turing's Cathedral



Engineer's Dreams



Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata



Mach 9



The Tale of the Big Computer



The Thirty-ninth Step


Key to Archival Sources


Notes


Index