Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
ISBN-10
0375422773
ISBN-13
9780375422775
Category
Science
Pages
401
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Pantheon
Author
George Dyson

Description

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.

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