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000435636 1001_ $$aDyson, George,$$d1953-
000435636 24510 $$aTuring's cathedral :$$bthe origins of the digital universe /$$cGeorge Dyson.
000435636 250__ $$a1st ed.
000435636 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPantheon Books,$$cc2012.
000435636 300__ $$axxii, 401 p., [32] p. of plates :$$bill., map ;$$c25 cm.
000435636 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000435636 5050_ $$a1953 -- Olden Farm -- Veblen's circle -- Neumann János -- MANIAC -- Fuld 219 -- 6J6 -- V-40 -- Cyclogenesis -- Monte Carlo -- Ulam's demons -- Barricelli's universe -- Turing's cathedral -- Engineer's dreams -- Theory of self-reproducing automata -- Mach 9 -- The tale of the big computer -- The thirty-ninth step.
000435636 520__ $$a"Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution--in other words, computer code. In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses--led by John von Neumann--gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their joint project was the realization of the theoretical universal machine, an idea that had been put forth by mathematician Alan Turing. This group of brilliant engineers worked in isolation, almost entirely independent from industry and the traditional academic community. But because they relied exclusively on government funding, the government wanted its share of the results: the computer that they built also led directly to the hydrogen bomb. George Dyson has uncovered a wealth of new material about this project, and in bringing the story of these men and women and their ideas to life, he shows how the crucial advancements that dominated twentieth-century technology emerged from one computer in one laboratory, where the digital universe as we know it was born"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000435636 520__ $$a"Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution--in other words, computer code"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000435636 60010 $$aVon Neumann, John,$$d1903-1957.
000435636 60010 $$aTuring, Alan,$$d1912-1954.
000435636 650_0 $$aComputers$$xHistory.
000435636 650_0 $$aTuring machines.
000435636 650_0 $$aComputable functions.
000435636 650_0 $$aRandom access memory.
000435636 85200 $$bgen$$hQA76.17$$i.D97$$i2012
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