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Author: David BerlinskiPublisher: Harcourt
ISBN-10: 0151003386Subject: Computers & Internet
ISBN-13: 9780151003389Topic: --
Format: HardcoverLanguage: English
Publication Year: 2000Condition: Very Good
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This accessible work surveys the history and future of algorithms, including the work of pioneers David Hilbert, Kurt Godel, and Alan Turing, and reverently describes how these mathematical formulas fueled pivotal innovations in mathematics and computing.

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Length:345 pages
Height:9.5 in.
Width:6.3 in.
Thickness:1.2 in.
Weight:22.4 oz.

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The algorithm--the greatest mathematical discovery of the 20th century; a recipe that runs the computer and gives DNA its instructions. In this book, the author of "The Tour of Calculus" tells how it all happened, taking readers on a breathtaking voyage of invention, genius, and human frailty.
The fascinating tale of the genius and madness that created the theory behind computers. Every time you check your voice mail, make an airplane reservation, or run your microwave, you're using the greatest mathematical discovery of the twentieth century, the algorithm-the basic theory that runs a computer and gives DNA its instructions. David Berlinski, the author of the bestselling A Tour of the Calculus, takes you on a breathtaking voyage of invention, genius, and human frailty as he tells how the algorithm, a notion first intuited by Leibniz, came to full bloom in the course of this century. It's a fascinating story of mathematicians and logicians, geniuses and oddballs, who gradually found their way to the algorithm. In Berlinski's brilliant retelling, the key concepts are explained so that even the most math-phobic reader is energized and delighted with the "aha" of understanding.

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"David Berlinski writes that the story of the algorithm--the powerful, deceptively simple idea coiled at the heart of the computer revolution--is 'among the greatest and least known of the modern era.' Greatest, maybe, but least known? How this mathematical concept emerged from early inklings by the ninth-century Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi (his name was transliterated into Latin as 'algoritimi'), reaching full force in the work of the British mathematician Alan Turing, has been told many times. But the more I thought about it, I realized that Berlinski, a writer and mathematician in Paris, was right."
New York Times - George Johnson (05/21/2000)

"Berlinski's book goes far beyond popularizing an important, if abstruse, innovation. Touching upon disciplines as varied as physics, mathematical logic, and psychology, it carries the reader from anecdote to technical explanation to philosophical speculation to lyrical musing and back again with barely a pause....THE ADVENT OF THE ALGORITHM is not an academic book by any stretch, but neither is it a typical example of popular science-writing, being designed as much to excite the imagination as to inform. It does both, and then some."
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