The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine that Fooled the World - Brossura

Standage, Tom

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ISBN 10: 014029919X ISBN 13: 9780140299199

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2003

Riassunto

The true story of the Turk, the imfamous eighteenth-century automation, links an unlikely cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age. A remarkable story in its own right, the Turk's chequered career also provides an accessible way of examining the complex relationship between magic, man, mind and machine, from the Enlightenment to the computer age.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Tom Standage is science correspondent of The Economist in London and author of "The Victorian Internet: the remarkable story of the nineteeth century's online pioneers" (1998) and "The Netune File: planet detectives and the discovery of worlds unseen" (2000). He lives in Greenwich.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 014029919X
• ISBN 13: 9780140299199
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288