Poems that solve puzzles: the history and science of algorithms
Poems that Solve Puzzles is the biography of an idea. The idea that algorithms - sequences of simple step-by-step instructions - can solve the most complex problems. The book traces this idea from the earliest algorithms etched on clay tablets 4,000 years ago to the most recent discoveries in artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
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- Full title :Poems that solve puzzles : the history and science of algorithms / Chris Bleakley.
Summary
Poems that Solve Puzzles is the biography of an idea. The idea that algorithms - sequences of simple step-by-step instructions - can solve the most complex problems. The book traces this idea from the earliest algorithms etched on clay tablets 4,000 years ago to the most recent discoveries in artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
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- Publication Date:©2020
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780192595409, 0192595407, 9780191888168, 0191888168
- oclc:on1193995976
- LC Classification:QA55
- Dewey Decimal:510.835
Table of Contents
Cover -- POEMS THAT SOLVE PUZZLES -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- About the Author -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Trainee Librarian -- The Algorithm Machine -- 1 Ancient Algorithms -- Etched in Clay -- Uncovered at Last -- Elegance and Beauty -- Finding Primes -- 2 Ever-Expanding Circles -- Wheels Within Wheels -- World Records -- The Art of Reckoning -- Waves Upon Waves -- 3 Computer Dreams -- A Clockwork Computer -- The Turing Machine -- 4 Weather Forecasts -- Numerical Forecasts -- ENIAC -- Monte Carlo -- Computer Forecasts -- Chaos -- Long-Range Forecasts
5 Artificial Intelligence Emerges -- More Than Math -- The Trouble with AI -- Machine Reasoning -- Machine Learning -- The AI Winters -- 6 Needles in Haystacks -- The Travelling Salesman Problem -- Measuring Complexity -- Complexity Classes -- Short Cuts -- Stable Marriages -- Artificial Evolution -- 7 The Internet -- ARPANET -- Internetworking -- Fixing Errors -- Secret Messages -- 8 Googling the Web -- World Wide Web -- Amazon Recommends -- GoogleWeb Search -- The Dotcom Bubble -- 9 Facebook and Friends -- Facebook's News Feed -- The Netflix Prize -- Google Flu Trends
10 America's Favourite Quiz Show -- Wats…
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