Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms

ISBN-13: 9780198853732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Chris Bleakley

Opis

Poems that Solve Puzzles is the biography of an idea. The idea that algorithms - sequences of simple step-by-step instructions - can solve the most complex problems. The book traces this idea from the earliest algorithms etched on clay tablets 4,000 years ago to the most recent discoveries in artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

Recenzje

Poems that Solve Puzzles is a thorough investigation into the history of algorithms...It is an enjoyable read for anyone curious about how algorithms developed and were implemented throughout history.' Notices of the American Mathematical Society

O autorze

Chris Bleakley has thirty-five years of experience in algorithm design. He has taught and written on the subject for the last sixteen of those years. As a school kid, Chris taught himself how to program on a cheap home computer. Within two years, he was selling his own computer programs by mail-order to customers throughout the UK. Chris graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science from Queen's University, Belfast, and a PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University. After college, he was employed as a software consultant by Accenture and, later, as a senior telecommunications researcher at Broadcom Eireann Research.