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  • Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science)

    The Making of the Modern Computer

    par Jon Agar ...
    Collections series Icon Science
    The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so totally? An enlightening mini-biography of a brilliant but troubled man. ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • Alan Turing: The Enigma

    par Andrew Hodges ...
    A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated the concept of the universal ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • My Brief History

    par Stephen Hawking ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERStephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.**My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Information

    A History, a Theory, a Flood

    par James Gleick ...
    From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory.Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $13.99 CAD

  • Turing's Cathedral

    The Origins of the Digital Universe

    par George Dyson ...
    “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 ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Seeing Further

    The Story of Science and the Royal Society

    Modifié par Bill Bryson ...
    From the Royal Society, a peerless collection of all-new science writing.Bill Bryson, who explored all—or at least a great deal of—current scientific knowledge in A Short History of Nearly Everything, now turns his attention to the history of that knowledge. As editor of Seeing Further, he has rounded up an extraordinary roster of scientists who write and writers who know science in order to ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Reflections of Alan Turing

    A Relative Story

    par Dermot Turing ...
    Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing.Except …When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, people want to know more than the bullet points of his life. They want to know everything – was Alan Turing actually a codebreaker? What did he make of artificial intelligence? What is the significance of Alan Turing's trial, his suicide, the Royal Pardon ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Electric Universe

    How Electricity Switched on the Modern World

    par David Bodanis ...
    The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know

    par John D. Barrow ...
    'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.' John von NeumannMathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining Brain Shot answers a few essential questions about existence. It unravels the knotty, clarifies the conundrums and sheds ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Colossus:The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

    The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

    At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers.This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, where it played an invaluable role cracking enemy codes. Until very recently, much about the Colossus machine was shrouded ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Alex Through the Looking-Glass

    How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life

    par Alex Bellos ...
    From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are fascinating and ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • How Numbers Work

    Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics

    par New Scientist ...
    Collections series New Scientist Instant Expert
    Think of a number between one and ten.No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?) And then there are the negative numbers, the imaginary numbers, the irrational numbers like ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD