The advent of the algorithm : the idea that rules the world / David Berlinski.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Harcourt, c2000.Description: xviii, 345 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0151003386
  • 9780151003389
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Advent of the algorithm.LOC classification:
  • QA 9.58 .B47 2000
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Contents:
ch. 1. The marketplace of schemes -- ch. 2. Under the eye of doubt -- ch. 3. Bruno the fastidious -- ch. 4. Cargoload and crack-up -- ch. 5. Hilbert takes command -- ch. 6. G�odel in Vienna -- ch. 7. The dangerous discipline -- ch. 8. Flight into abstraction -- ch. 9. The imaginary machine -- ch. 10. Postscript -- ch. 11. The peacock of reason -- ch. 12. time against time -- ch. 13. An artifact of mind -- ch. 14. A world of many gods -- ch. 15. The cross of words -- Epilogue : the idea of order at Key West.
Review: "Here is the story of the search for and eventual discovery of the algorithm, the set of instructions that drives computers. An idea as simple as the first recipe and as elusive as the quark or the gluon, the algorithm was discovered by a succession of logicians and mathematicians working alone and in obscurity during the first half of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes index.

ch. 1. The marketplace of schemes -- ch. 2. Under the eye of doubt -- ch. 3. Bruno the fastidious -- ch. 4. Cargoload and crack-up -- ch. 5. Hilbert takes command -- ch. 6. G�odel in Vienna -- ch. 7. The dangerous discipline -- ch. 8. Flight into abstraction -- ch. 9. The imaginary machine -- ch. 10. Postscript -- ch. 11. The peacock of reason -- ch. 12. time against time -- ch. 13. An artifact of mind -- ch. 14. A world of many gods -- ch. 15. The cross of words -- Epilogue : the idea of order at Key West.

"Here is the story of the search for and eventual discovery of the algorithm, the set of instructions that drives computers. An idea as simple as the first recipe and as elusive as the quark or the gluon, the algorithm was discovered by a succession of logicians and mathematicians working alone and in obscurity during the first half of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

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