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The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World

David Berlinski

June 15, 2000 · Hardcover · Harcourt · 416 pp

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First edition · ISBN 9780151003389 · English · US · Dewey 511/.8 21 · LC QA9.58 .B47 2000

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A history of the development of the computer focuses on the people whose innovative mathematical work in algorithms and codes made the computer a reality, discussing its beginnings with Liebnitz and profiling unsung geniuses like G÷del and Turing. 50,000 first printing. First serial, Harpers. BOMC.