Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by Dyson, George - 2012-03-06

Pantheon Books, 2012. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

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Pantheon. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 432 pp. M40 .

New York: Pantheon Books, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Glazed Boards. As New/About Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall in glazed photo boards. As New and unread book in About Fine unclipped DJ w/light soil front panel. 401pp inc. Notes, Index; illustrated in reproductions.

2012. Hardcover.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2012. xxii, 401 pages, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. "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 words, computer code. In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses--led by John von Neumann--gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their joint project was the realization of the theoretical universal machine, an idea that had been put forth by mathematician Alan Turing. This group of brilliant engineers worked in isolation, almost entirely independent from industry and the traditional academic community. But because they relied exclusively on government funding, the government wanted its share of the results: the… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Lightest shelf wear to the book and jacket; bottom corner of endpaper creased, front panel of dj sunned. Clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012. “The story of the invention of computers has been told many times, from many different points of view, but seldom as authoritatively and with as much detail as George Dyson has done. . . . Turing’s Cathedral will enthrall computer enthusiasts. . . . Employing letters, memoirs, oral histories and personal interviews, Dyson organizes his book around the personalities of the men (and occasional woman) behind the computer, and does a splendid job in bringing them to life.”—The Seattle Times. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian… Read More