In Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson gives us a personal history of computing's early years. A science historian and son of physicist Freeman Dyson, he recounts a boyhood spent in 1950s Princeton, New ...
Unlike his much more famous colleague Albert Einstein, John von Neumann is not a household name these days, but his discoveries shape the possibilities of life for every creature on this planet. As a ...
"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, ...