Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

George Dyson

nonfiction history science technology challenging informative slow-paced

505 pages | first published 2012

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“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Ne...
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