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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11601021.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "ch. 1. The marketplace of schemes -- ch. 2. Under the eye of doubt -- ch. 3. Bruno the fastidious -- ch. 4. Cargoload and crack-up -- ch. 5. Hilbert takes command -- ch. 6. Gödel in Vienna -- ch. 7. The dangerous discipline -- ch. 8. Flight into abstraction -- ch. 9. The imaginary machine -- ch. 10. Postscript -- ch. 11. The peacock of reason -- ch. 12. time against time -- ch. 13. An artifact of mind -- ch. 14. A world of many gods -- ch. 15. The cross of words -- Epilogue : the idea of order at Key West.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 345 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Advent of the algorithm.".
- catalog identifier "0151003386".
- catalog isFormatOf "Advent of the algorithm.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harcourt,".
- catalog relation "Advent of the algorithm.".
- catalog subject "511/.8 21".
- catalog subject "Algorithms.".
- catalog subject "QA9.58 .B47 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 1. The marketplace of schemes -- ch. 2. Under the eye of doubt -- ch. 3. Bruno the fastidious -- ch. 4. Cargoload and crack-up -- ch. 5. Hilbert takes command -- ch. 6. Gödel in Vienna -- ch. 7. The dangerous discipline -- ch. 8. Flight into abstraction -- ch. 9. The imaginary machine -- ch. 10. Postscript -- ch. 11. The peacock of reason -- ch. 12. time against time -- ch. 13. An artifact of mind -- ch. 14. A world of many gods -- ch. 15. The cross of words -- Epilogue : the idea of order at Key West.".
- catalog title "The advent of the algorithm : the idea that rules the world / David Berlinski.".
- catalog type "text".