Boiling Electrons
David Kaiser, 27 September 2012
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
by George Dyson.
Allen Lane, 401 pp., £25, March 2012,978 0 7139 9750 7 Show More
by George Dyson.
Allen Lane, 401 pp., £25, March 2012,
“... to find too much going on’ there. The calm was disturbed by members of a new team assembled by John von Neumann, the legendary mathematician. Von Neumann too had spent much of the war at Los Alamos. There, he was gripped by a vision as remarkable as Charles Babbage’s a century before: perhaps one could build a machine to calculate. Von Neumann was ... ”