Description: Routines of Substitution : John Von Neumann’s Work on Software Development, 1, Paperback by Priestley, Mark, ISBN 331991670X, ISBN-13 9783319916705, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK
This work is a historical and philosophical study of the programming work carried out by John von Neumann in the period 1945-8. At the heart of th is an examination of a manuscript featuring the earliest known surviving example of von Neumann’s coding, a routine written in 1945 to 'mesh’ two sequences of data and intended to be part of a larger program implementing the algorithm now known as mergesort.
The text of the manuscript itself, along with a preliminary document describing the code he used to write this program, are reproduced as appendices. The program is approached in three chapters describing the historical background to von Neumann’s work, the significance of the sorting application itself, and the development of the EDVAC, the machine for which the program was written. The subsequent chapters widen the focus again, discussing the subsequent evolution of the program and the crucial topic of subroutines, before concluding by situating von Neumann’s work in a number of wider contexts. Th also offers a unifying philosophical interpretation of von Neumann’s approach to coding.Price: 47.59 GBP
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Book Title: Routines of Substitution : John Von Neumann’s Work on Software De
Number of Pages: 131 Pages
Publication Name: Routines of Substitution: John Von Neumann's Work on Software Development, 1945-1948
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Engineering & Technology, Computer Science, Science
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 226 g
Author: Mark Priestley
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Springerbriefs in History of Computing
Format: Paperback
