Description: The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a dazzling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AIJohn von Neumann was an enigma. As a young man, he stunned those around him with his monomaniacal pursuit of the unshakeable foundations of mathematics. But when his faith in this all-encompassing system crumbled, he began to put his prodigious intellect to use for those in power. As he designed unfathomable computer systems and aided the development of the atomic bomb, his work pushed increasingly into areas that were beyond human comprehension and control - and that threatened human destruction.In The MANIAC, Benjamin Labatut braids fact with fiction in a scintillating journey to the very fringes of rational thought, right to the point where it tips over into chaos. Stretching back to early twentieth-century conflict over contradictions in physics and up to advances in artificial intelligence that outpace the human, this is a mind-bending story of the mad dreams of reason. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Benjamin Labatut was born in Rotterdam in 1980 and grew up in The Hague, Buenos Aires and Lima. When We Cease to Understand the World, his first book to be translated into English, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Labatut lives with his family in Santiago, Chile. Review Monstrously good... Reads like a dark foundation myth about modern technology but told with the pace of a thriller - Mark HaddonLabatuts voice comes from the future, to free us from the curse of our present - Wolfram Eilenberger, author of Time of the MagiciansPraise for - When We Cease to Understand the World:A monstrous and brilliant book - Philip PullmanMesmerising and revelatory - William Boyd Details ISBN1782279814 Pages 368 Publisher Pushkin Press Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781782279815 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-09-07 Imprint Pushkin Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-09-07 UK Release Date 2023-09-07 ISBN-10 1782279814 Author Benjamín Labatut Audience General DEWEY 863.7 NZ Release Date 2023-11-13 Translated from English Language English We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:144177426;
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