Dyson George. Turing's Cathedral. The Origins of the Digital Universe

New York: Pantheon Books, 2012. — 508 p. — ISBN 978-0307907066, 9780375422775, 0375422773.In a revealing account of John von Neumann’s realization of Alan Turing’s Universal Machine, George Dyson vividly illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world.Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Principal Characters.
1953.
Olden Farm.
Veblen’s Circle.
Neumann János.
MANIAC.
Fuld 219.
6J6.
V-40.
Cyclogenesis.
Monte Carlo.
Ulam’s Demons.
Barricelli’s Universe.
Turing’s Cathedral.
Engineer’s Dreams.
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata.
Mach 9.
The Tale of the Big Computer.
The Thirty-ninth Step.
Key to Archival Sources.
Notes.
Index.
Illustrations.
About the Author.
Other Books by This Author.