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

By David Berlinski

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year
2000
ISBN
0151003386, 9780151003389
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23670880 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
416\371
Time added
2016-10-12 17:04:53
Algorithms;Data Structures;Genetic;Memory Manageme

Description

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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