La gloire d'Alan Turing commence vers la fin du XXe siècle, bien longtemps après sa mort. Il aura donc fallu attendre l'informatisation du monde, la divulgation de ses activités de décryptage durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la levée des tabous sur l'homosexualité, pour que …
"What can we compute--even with unlimited resources? Is everything within reach? Or are computations necessarily drastically limited, not just in practice, but theoretically? These questions are at the heart of computability theory. The goal of this book is to give the reader a …
"Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution--in other wor…
In this book the author re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution, in other words, computer code. In the 1940s and '50s, a g…