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Turing's Cathedral : (Record no. 2361)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780141015903
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 510.92
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dyson, George
9 (RLIN) 365919
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Turing's Cathedral :
Remainder of title The Origins of the Digital Universe
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books Ltd;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 432 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. How did computers take over the world? In late 1945, a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their ostensible goal was to build a computer which would be instrumental in the US government's race to create a hydrogen bomb. The mathematicians themselves, however, saw their project as the realization of Alan Turing's theoretical 'universal machine.' In Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson vividly re-creates the intense experimentation, incredible mathematical insight and pure creative genius that led to the dawn of the digital universe, uncovering a wealth of new material to bring a human story of extraordinary men and women and their ideas to life. From the lowliest iPhone app to Google's sprawling metazoan codes, we now live in a world of self-replicating numbers and self-reproducing machines whose origins go back to a 5-kilobyte matrix that still holds clues as to what may lie ahead.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular science
9 (RLIN) 365920
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History of mathematics
9 (RLIN) 365921
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Computing and the Internet 30/08/2016 1 510.92 PKLC007049 19/08/2018 23/06/2018 30/08/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 1
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Computing and the Internet 11/05/2016 1 510.92 PKLC001832 21/02/2020 07/02/2020 11/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17