The Advent Of The Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer - Tapa blanda

Berlinski, David

 
9780156013918: The Advent Of The Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer
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ISBN 10: 0156013916 ISBN 13: 9780156013918
Editorial: Harvest, 2001

Sinopsis

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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David Berlinski is the author of three novels and four works of nonfiction, most recently the bestselling A Tour of the Calculus. Berlinski received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is a regular contributor to Commentary and Forbes ASAP. He lives in Paris.


David Berlinski is the author of three novels and four works of nonfiction, most recently the bestselling A Tour of the Calculus. Berlinski received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is a regular contributor to Commentary and Forbes ASAP. He lives in Paris.

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Editorial
Harvest
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0156013916
ISBN 13 
9780156013918
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Número de páginas
372
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9780151003389: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea That Rules the World

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ISBN 10:  0151003386 ISBN 13:  9780151003389
Editorial: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000
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