Turing's cathedral : (Record no. 9946)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780375422775 (hb) |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 004.09 |
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dyson, George |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Turing's cathedral : |
| Remainder of title | the origins of the digital universe |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Pantheon Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxii, 401p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same.<br/> <br/>Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars." |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Turing machines |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Random access memory |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computable functions |
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| Koha item type | Book |
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| 9 (RLIN) | 10566 |
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| 9 (RLIN) | 6502 |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | bill no. | bill date | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Computer science | 605/23-24 | 27/12/2023 | Plaksha University Library | Plaksha University Library | 08/01/2024 | T V Enterprises | 2597.13 | 1 | 1 | 004.09 DYS | 004760 | 29/05/2024 | 24/01/2024 | 08/01/2024 | Book |