The advent of the algorithm : the idea that rules the world /
David Berlinski.
- New York : Harcourt, c2000.
- xviii, 345 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
marketplace of schemes -- Under the eye of doubt -- Bruno the fastidious -- Cargoload and crack-up -- Hilbert takes command -- G�odel in Vienna -- dangerous discipline -- Flight into abstraction -- imaginary machine -- Postscript -- peacock of reason -- time against time -- artifact of mind -- world of many gods -- cross of words -- Epilogue : the idea of order at Key West. ch. 1. The ch. 2. ch. 3. ch. 4. ch. 5. ch. 6. ch. 7. The ch. 8. ch. 9. The ch. 10. ch. 11. The ch. 12. ch. 13. An ch. 14. A ch. 15. The
"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.