The advent of the algorithm
Subtitle: the idea that rules the world
By: David Berlinski.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Algorithms
Description: "Here is the story of the search for and eventual discovery of the algorithm, the set of instructions that drives computers. An idea as simple as the first recipe and as elusive as the quark or the gluon, the algorithm was discovered by a succession of logicians and mathematicians working alone and in obscurity during the first half of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.