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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, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution--in other words, computer code.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- George Dyson
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 401
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books, Penguin
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375422775
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