Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
By: George Dyson
3.72
Format: 374 pages, ebook
"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," t…
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1. Alan Turing: The Enigma
By: Andrew Hodges , Douglas R. Hofstadter
3.75
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-bo… read more
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"His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world."-Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
"The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clea…"-Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
"HIs chess-playing methods did the same thing — as did the games on the Colossi — and posed the question as to where a line could be drawn between the 'intelligent' and the 'mechanical'. His view, exp…"-Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
2. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
By: James Gleick
4.03
Format: 527 pages, Hardcover
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonis… read more
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- history
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"At the end of 2006, people concerned with the “Cat"-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity…."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
3. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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4. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
By: Rob Goodman , Jimmy Soni
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon--the … read more
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5. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By: None
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Audio CD
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more
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6. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
By: George Dyson
3.72
Format: 374 pages, ebook
"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," t… read more
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- computers
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7. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: None
3.36
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Our Mathematical Universeis a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discov… read more
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8. The Double Helix
By: James D. Watson
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutio… read more
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9. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.29
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more
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"Gullibility kills."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
10. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
By: Jon Gertner
4.14
Format: 152 pages,
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs--officially, the research… read more
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11. The Soul of a New Machine
By: Tracy Kidder
4.33
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done--just look at today's news… read more
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12. Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
By: Rebecca Goldstein
4.33
Format: 228 pages,
KURT GODEL IS CONSIDERED the twentieth century's greatest mathematician. His monumental theorem of … read more
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13. Isaac Newton
By: James Gleick
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he … read more
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14. Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It
By: David M. Ewalt
3.96
Format: 286 pages,
The Hobbitmeets Moneyballin this definitive book on Dungeons & Dragons--from its origins and rise t… read more
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15. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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16. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- technology
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
17. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
By: Stuart Russell
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more
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"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
18. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
By: Simon Winchester
4.14
Format: 416 pages, ebook
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industr… read more
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"From a book talk in Palo Alto for "The Perfectionists"; He pulled out his new iphone and told us that its Apple-designed chipset has 8 billion[!] transistors, and that someone at Intel told him that …"-Simon Winchester, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
19. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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- history
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- computer science
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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
20. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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21. When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
By: Jim Holt
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an enterta… read more
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"The river of time may have its rapids and its calmer stretches, but one thing would seem to be certain: it carries all of us, willy-nilly, in its flow. Irresistibly, irreversibly, we are being borne …"-Jim Holt, When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
