Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

ISBN-13: 9780141015903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 432 str.

George Dyson

Opis

In 'Turing's Cathedral', historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly recreates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, television, modern genetics and models of stellar evolution.

Recenzje

Riveting . . . conveys the electrifying sense of possibility that the first computers unleashed . . . a page-turner New Scientist

O autorze

George Dyson is a historian of technology and the author of several books including Turing's Cathedral, Project Orion and Darwin Among the Machines. His subjects range from the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak to the evolution of artificial intelligence.