Description: The algorithm is just code, but it makes things happen. It's the set of abstract, detailed instructions that makes computers run. Any programmer can invent a new algorithm-and many have become millionaires doing just that. Computers, the Internet, virtual reality-our world is being transformed before our eyes, all because some quirky logicians and mathematicians followed the dream of ultimate abstraction and invented the algorithm. Beginning with Leibniz and culminating in the middle of this century with the work of little-known geniuses and eccentrics like Gödel and Turing, David Berlinski tells this epic tale with clarity and imaginative brilliance. You don't have to be a programmer or a math buff to enjoy his book. All you have to do is be fascinated by the greatest innovation of the twentieth century.
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Restocking Fee: No
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Series: Science
Subject Area: algorithms
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Personalized: No
Level: Advanced
Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
SKU: 123E11
Subject: Mathematics
Item Length: 8in.
Item Height: 1.3in.
Item Width: 5.3in.
Author: David Berlinski
Publication Name: Advent of the Algorithm : the Idea That Rules the WORLD
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication Year: 2000
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
