The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer
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ISBN: 0156013916 / Publisher: Mariner Books, May 2001
"A deep and instructive account of the algorithm's _development and its role in modern life" (Scientific American) _from the bestselling author of A Tour of the Calculus
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<div>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.<br>In <i>The Advent of the Algorithm,</i> 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 <i>Advent of the Algorithm </i>is an epic tale told with clarity and imaginative brilliance. <br> <br></div>
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