The Aesthetics of Computing
David Hillel Gelernter(Author)
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published on 4. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-7538-0697-5 (ISBN)
Description
Defining beauty as the mating of simplicity and power, Gelernter draws analogies with the design of cars and of bridges, and shows how the most innovative minds in computing, from Alan Turing onwards, have always been obsessed by elegance.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
157 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7538-0697-5 (9780753806975)
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