The advent of the algorithm : the idea that rules the world
David Berlinski (Author)
"Here is the story of the search for and eventual discovery of the algorithm, the set of instructions that drives computers. An idea as simple as the first recipe and as elusive as the quark or the gluon, the algorithm was discovered by a succession of logicians and mathematicians working alone and in obscurity during the first half of the twentieth century."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Harcourt, New York, 2000