The Maniac
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From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a dazzling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AIJohnny von Neumann was an enigma. As a yo...
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From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a dazzling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AIJohnny von Neumann was an enigma. As a young man, he stunned those around him with his monomaniacal pursuit of the unshakeable foundations of mathematics. But when his faith in this all-encompassing system crumbled, he began to put his prodigious intellect to use for those in power. As he designed unfathomable computer systems and aided the development of the atomic bomb, his work pushed increasingly into areas that were beyond human comprehension and control - and that threatened human destruction. In The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut braids fact with fiction in a scintillating journey to the very fringes of rational thought, right to the point where it tips over into chaos. Stretching back to early twentieth-century conflict over contradictions in physics and up to advances in artificial intelligence that outpace the human, this is a mind-bending story of the mad dreams of reason. 'Emerging as the most significant South American writer since Borges... there is no one writing like him anywhere in the world' - Telegraph
Detaljer
Forlag
Pushkin Press
Udgave
0
ISBN
9781805330677
Sprog
Engelsk
Originalsprog
dan
Sider
368
Udgivelsesdato
07-09-2023
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3137223
EAN nr.
9781805330677
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
29
Bredde (mm)
153
Længde (mm)
232
Vægt (g)
454