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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 culminating in the middle of this century with the work of little-known geniuses and eccentrics like Gödel and Turing, David Berlinski tells this epic tale with clarity and imaginative brilliance. You don't have to be a programmer or a math buff to enjoy his book. All you have to do is be fascinated by the greatest innovation of the twentieth century.
Preface The Digital Bureaucrat
Introduction The Jeweler’s Velvet
The Marketplace of Schemes
Under the Eye of Doubt
Bruno the Fastidious
Cargoload and Crack-Up
Hilbert Takes Command
Godel in Vienna
The Dangerous Discipline
Flight into Abstraction
The Imaginary Machine
Postscript
The Peacock of Reason
Time Against Time
An Artifact of Mind
A World of Many Gods
The Cross of Words
Epilogue The Idea of Order at Key West
Acknowledgments
Index