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| #1534238 in Books | 2000-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.18 x6.25 x9.30l, | File type: PDF | 416 pages||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Over-written|By Geoff Puterbaugh|I admire an author's clever use of words as much as anyone, but there is undoubtedly a point where the clever use of words becomes "mannerism:" the author calls attention to HIMSELF instead of his subject matter.
This book fails miserably here. Berlinski seems much more concerned about drawing attention to himself as "the brilliant w|.com |Francis Sullivan of the Institute for Defense Analysis said "Great algorithms are the poetry of computation"; David Berlinski calls the algorithm "the idea that rules the world." The Advent of the Algorithm is not so much a history of algorithms as
The algorithm is just code, but it makes things happen. It's the set of abstract, detailed instructions that makes computers run. Any programmer can invent a new algorithm-and many have become millionaires doing just that. Computers, the Internet, virtual reality-our world is being transformed before our eyes, all because some quirky logicians and mathematicians followed the dream of ultimate abstraction and invented the algorithm. Beginning with Leibniz and culmina...
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