The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer by David Berlinski

The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer

David Berlinski

368 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds of the greatest thinkers in the world, the algorithm is what made the modern world ...

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