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The advent of the algorithm : the idea that rules the world / David Berlinski.

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  • ISBN: 0151003386
  • ISBN: 9780151003389
  • Physical Description: xviii, 345 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Harcourt, c2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
ch. 1. The marketplace of schemes -- ch. 2. Under the eye of doubt -- ch. 3. Bruno the fastidious -- ch. 4. Cargoload and crack-up -- ch. 5. Hilbert takes command -- ch. 6. Gödel in Vienna -- ch. 7. The dangerous discipline -- ch. 8. Flight into abstraction -- ch. 9. The imaginary machine -- ch. 10. Postscript -- ch. 11. The peacock of reason -- ch. 12. time against time -- ch. 13. An artifact of mind -- ch. 14. A world of many gods -- ch. 15. The cross of words -- Epilogue : the idea of order at Key West.
Subject:
Algorithms.
Rekenkunde.
Algoritmen.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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