Once Upon an Algorithm
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Category
- Fiction
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I ALGORITHMS -- 1 A Path to Understanding Computation -- 2 Walk the Walk: When Computation Really Happens -- 3 The Mystery of Signs -- 4 Detective's Notebook: Accessory after the Fact -- 5 The Search for the Perfect Data Structu
<p>Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In <i>Once Upon an Algorithm</i>, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes place beyond electronic computer
Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes place beyond electronic computers, and com
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I ALGORITHMS -- 1 A Path to Understanding Computation -- 2 Walk the Walk: When Computation Really Happens -- 3 The Mystery of Signs -- 4 Detective's Notebook: Accessory after the Fact -- 5 The Search for the Perfect Data Structu