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The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computerby David BerlinskiISBN 0156013916 (0-15-601391-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer'Book summary:Francis Sullivan of the Institute for Defense Analysis said "Great algorithms are the poetry of computation"; David Berlinski calls the algorithm "the idea that rules the world." The Advent of the Algorithm is not so much a history of algorithms as a historical fantasia. Berlinski spins freely between semifictional accounts of historical figures, personal reminiscence, and mathematical proofs--without ever really defining an algorithm in so many words.
This is not the book for those who were maddened by Berlinski's A Tour of the Calculus; his style remains quirky, digressive, self-referential, and dense:
And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.
Twinkies and Diet Coke in hand, computer programmers can now be observed pausing thoughtfully at their consoles.
Berlinski's argument seems to be that algorithms--step-by-step procedures for getting answers--superceded logic, and will be superceded in turn by more biological, empirical, fuzzy methods. The structure of the book reflects this argument--sketches of people like Leibniz, Hilbert, Gödel, and Turing are interwoven with proofs and with characters of Berlinski's own invention. Berlinski's voice, closer to Hofstadter than to Knuth, remains unique. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea That Rules the Worldby David BerlinskiISBN 0151003386 (0-15-100338-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea That Rules the World'Book summary:Francis Sullivan of the Institute for Defense Analysis said "Great algorithms are the poetry of computation"; David Berlinski calls the algorithm "the idea that rules the world." The Advent of the Algorithm is not so much a history of algorithms as a historical fantasia. Berlinski spins freely between semifictional accounts of historical figures, personal reminiscence, and mathematical proofs--without ever really defining an algorithm in so many words.
This is not the book for those who were maddened by Berlinski's A Tour of the Calculus; his style remains quirky, digressive, self-referential, and dense:
And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.
Twinkies and Diet Coke in hand, computer programmers can now be observed pausing thoughtfully at their consoles.
Berlinski's argument seems to be that algorithms--step-by-step procedures for getting answers--superceded logic, and will be superceded in turn by more biological, empirical, fuzzy methods. The structure of the book reflects this argument--sketches of people like Leibniz, Hilbert, Gödel, and Turing are interwoven with proofs and with characters of Berlinski's own invention. Berlinski's voice, closer to Hofstadter than to Knuth, remains unique. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Black Mischief: Language, Life, Logic, Luckby David BerlinskiISBN 0156130637 (0-15-613063-7)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Black Mischief: The Mechanics of Modern Scienceby David BerlinskiISBN 038069963X (0-380-69963-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Body Shopby David BerlinskiISBN 0312139357 (0-312-13935-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Book Of Danielby David Berlinski , E.L. DoctorowISBN 0679643370 (0-679-64337-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Of Daniel'Book summary:The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.
His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted.
Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new lifemarriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him.
In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different.
It is a confession of his most intimate relationshipswith his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him.
It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House.
It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniels interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks.
It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the caselawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself.
It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this countryits sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations.
It is The Book of Daniel. [via]More editions of The Book Of Daniel:
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California: A Historyby Kevin Starr, David BerlinskiISBN 0679642404 (0-679-64240-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'California: A History'Book summary:California has always been our Shangri-lathe promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden States premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of Californias history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, this is the story of a place at once quintessentially American and utterly unique.
Arguing that Americas most populous state has always been blessed with both spectacular natural beauty and astonishing human diversity, Starr unfolds a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph.
For generations, Californias native peoples basked in the abundance of a climate and topography eminently suited to human habitation. By the time the Spanish arrived in the early sixteenth century, there were scores of autonomous tribes were thriving in the region. Though conquest was rapid, nearly two centuries passed before Spain exerted control over upper California through the chain of missions that stand to this day.
The discovery of gold in January 1848 changed everything. With population increasing exponentially as get-rich-quick dreamers converged from all over the world, California reinvented itself overnight. Starr deftly traces the successive waves of innovation and calamity that have broken over the state since thenthe incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons and the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the worlds entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the heroic irrigation and transportation projects that have altered the face of the region; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace.
Kevin Starr has devoted his career to the history of his beloved state, but he has never lost his sense of wonder over Californias sheer abundance and peerless variety. This one-volume distillation of a lifetimes work gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. [via]More editions of California: A History:
A Clean Sweepby David BerlinskiISBN 0312087446 (0-312-08744-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensionsby David BerlinskiISBN 0307396266 (0-307-39626-6)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
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Infinite Ascent : A Short History of Mathematicsby David BerlinskiISBN 067964234X (0-679-64234-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Less Than Meets the Eyeby David BerlinskiISBN 0312106114 (0-312-10611-4)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Newton's Gift : How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the Worldby David BerlinskiISBN 0743217764 (0-7432-1776-4)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World'Book summary:Who else could have constructed the basis for modern science out of an apple? Sir Isaac Newton, the celebrated genius behind the Principia Mathematica, lived inside his head--but not so much as to make his story dull. Mathematician and writer David Berlinski takes a new tack on the man's biography by approaching it through his work. Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World does explore Newton's strange childhood and eventual career in government, but it stays largely focused on the Cambridge years and especially on the development of the Principia.
Berlinski's uniquely impressionistic prose is perfect for his subject, whose penchant for withdrawal, depression, and misanthropy has driven many writers to despair. He instead fills the reader with visceral revulsion for the plague and ecstatic delight in a perfect English summer day before turning to intellectual matters. The author's knack for explaining tricky matters of mechanics is awe-inspiring; he moves with ease between captivating metaphor and precise mathematical language. Reading the Principia, even in English translation, is more of a chore than a delight, but Newton's Gift is precisely the opposite. --Rob Lightner [via]
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On System Analysis: An Essay Concerning the Limitations of Some Mathematical Methods in the Social, Political, and Biological Sciencesby David BerlinskiISBN 0262520516 (0-262-52051-6)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky: Astrology and the Art of Predictionby David BerlinskiISBN 0156030063 (0-15-603006-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky: Astrology and the Art of Prediction'Book summary:David Berlinski explains the power of humanity's oldest predictive system in this stunning and original new book. Astrology began at the dawn of time and over the centuries became a complex system with gifted seers often achieving results of eerie accuracy. For most of recorded history, astrologers have been found at the elbows of the rich and the powerful. However, Newton's system of the world put an end to one aspect of the astrological tradition. As a result, a method once widely used has become widely discredited, especially by scientific critics with little knowledge of astrology itself.[via]
With a genius for storytelling and penetrating analysis, Berlinski explains how astrology works and how astrological ideas, although disguised, have reappeared in modern scientific theories.
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A Tour of the Calculusby David BerlinskiISBN 0679747885 (0-679-74788-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tour of the Calculus'Book summary:In its largest aspect, the calculus functions as a celestial measuring tape, able to order the infinite expanse of the universe. Time and space are given names, points, and limits; seemingly intractable problems of motion, growth, and form are reduced to answerable questions. Calculus was humanity's first attempt to represent the world and perhaps its greatest meditation on the theme of continuity. Charts and graphs throughout. [via]
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- Tour of the Calculus: ISBN 009943508X (0-09-943508-X)
Softcover, Random House - A Tour of the Calculus: ISBN 0434098442 (0-434-09844-2)
Hardcover, Heinemann - A Tour of the Calculus: ISBN 0679426450 (0-679-42645-0)
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