Turing's Cathedral

Turing's Cathedral
Author: George Dyson
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2012
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0375422773

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Documents the innovations of a group of eccentric geniuses who developed computer code in the mid-20th century as part of mathematician Alan Turin's theoretical universal machine idea, exploring how their ideas led to such developments as digital television, modern genetics and the hydrogen bomb.


Turing's Cathedral
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: George Dyson
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Pantheon

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Documents the innovations of a group of eccentric geniuses who developed computer code in the mid-20th century as part of mathematician Alan Turin's theoretical
Turing's Cathedral
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: George Dyson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-06 - Publisher: Pantheon

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“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Tur
Turing's Cathedral
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: George Dyson
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-01 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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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 Advance
Analogia
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: George Dyson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-18 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

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Named one of WIRED’s "The Best Pop Culture That Got Us Through 2020" In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the anal
The Starship and the Canoe
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Kenneth Brower
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-18 - Publisher: Mountaineers Books

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“The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind