portada Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts (en Inglés)

Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

David Link

Editorial

Univocal Publishing

Año

2016

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

236

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6x17x1.5 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781937561048

N° edición

Categorías

Matemáticas
Filosofía

Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts (en Inglés)

David Link (Autor) · Univocal Publishing · Tapa Blanda

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As historical processes increasingly become steeped in technology, it becomes more necessary for a discipline to emerge that is capable of comprehending these materialities to better understand the fields they inundate such as science, art, and warfare. This effort is further compromised by the inherent complexity and complete arbitrariness of technical languages--especially when they are algorithmic--along with the rapid pace in which they become obsolete, unintelligible, or simply forgotten. The Turing Machine plays a central role in the Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts, wherein the gradual developments of the individual components encompassed by this complex technology are placed within the context of engineering sciences and the history of inventions. This genealogy also traces the origin of the computer in mathematics, meta-mathematics, combinatorics, cryptology, philosophy, and physics. The investigations reveal that the history of apparatuses that process signs is in no way limited to the second half of the twentieth century; rather, it is possible they existed at all times and in all cultures.