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The Advent of the Algorithm - The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed)
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The Advent of the Algorithm - The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed)
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Loot Price R542
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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.
In "The Advent of the Algorithm, " 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 Godel and
Turing, The "Advent of the Algorithm "is an epic tale told with
clarity and imaginative brilliance.
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