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Routines of Substitution - John von Neumann's Work on Software Development, 1945-1948 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
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Routines of Substitution - John von Neumann's Work on Software Development, 1945-1948 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: SpringerBriefs in History of Computing
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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 the book 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. The
book also offers a unifying philosophical interpretation of von
Neumann's approach to coding.
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