The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea That Rules the World
by Berlinski, David
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151003386
- ISBN 13
- 9780151003389
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Synopsis
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 with Leibniz and culminating in the middle of the twentieth century with the groundbreaking work of Gödel and Turing, The Advent of the Algorithm is an epic tale told with clarity and imaginative brilliance.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15294822-6
- Title
- The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea That Rules the World
- Author
- Berlinski, David
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0151003386
- ISBN 13
- 9780151003389
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2000-03-31
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