Turing's cathedral : the origins of the digital universe /

"Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution--in other words, computer cod...

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Main Author:	Dyson, George, 1953-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Pantheon Books, 2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Computers > History. Turing machines. Computable functions. Random access memory. Von Neumann, John, > 1903-1957. Turing, Alan, > 1912-1954. SCIENCE / General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.