Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

by George Dyson

Book Overview

"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing's Cathedral , George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing's vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375422773
• ISBN13: 9780375422775
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"