The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World - Hardcover

Berlinski, David

 
9780151003389: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151003386 ISBN 13: 9780151003389
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

The algorithm is just code, but it makes things happen. It's the set of abstract, detailed instructions that makes computers run. Any programmer can invent a new algorithm-and many have become millionaires doing just that. Computers, the Internet, virtual reality-our world is being transformed before our eyes, all because some quirky logicians and mathematicians followed the dream of ultimate abstraction and invented the algorithm. Beginning with Leibniz and culminating in the middle of this century with the work of little-known geniuses and eccentrics like Gödel and Turing, David Berlinski tells this epic tale with clarity and imaginative brilliance. You don't have to be a programmer or a math buff to enjoy his book. All you have to do is be fascinated by the greatest innovation of the twentieth century.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0151003386
ISBN 13 
9780151003389
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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