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Turing's Cathedral - George Dyson

Turing's Cathedral

The Origins of the Digital Universe

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Buch | Hardcover
432 Seiten
2012
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-0-7139-9750-7 (ISBN)
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How did computers take over the world? From the lowliest iPhone app to Google's sprawling metazoan codes, we live in a world of self-replicating numbers and self-reproducing machines. This title re-creates the experimentation, mathematical insight and creative genius that led to the dawn of the digital universe.
How did computers take over the world? In late 1945, a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their ostensible goal was to build a computer which would be instrumental in the US government's race to create a hydrogen bomb. The mathematicians themselves, however, saw their project as the realization of Alan Turing's theoretical 'universal machine.'

In Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson vividly re-creates the intense experimentation, incredible mathematical insight and pure creative genius that led to the dawn of the digital universe, uncovering a wealth of new material to bring a human story of extraordinary men and women and their ideas to life. From the lowliest iPhone app to Google's sprawling metazoan codes, we now live in a world of self-replicating numbers and self-reproducing machines whose origins go back to a 5-kilobyte matrix that still holds clues as to what may lie ahead.

George Dyson is a historian of technology whose interests include the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak. He is the author of Baidarka; Project Orion; and Darwin Among the Machines.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.3.2012
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 240 mm
Gewicht 782 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Allgemeines / Lexika
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
ISBN-10 0-7139-9750-8 / 0713997508
ISBN-13 978-0-7139-9750-7 / 9780713997507
Zustand Neuware
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