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"Thought experiments have long been a vital part of the creative, intellectual process in modern science-and, by extension, so have "demons." Demons are hypothetical beings imagined by scientists to perform specific roles within thought experiments-embodying special powers or abilities and personifying tough intellectual challenges or highlighting apparent paradoxes. They are used as a way of exploring what would happen if one fiddled with or upset the sturdiest of physical laws, or experimented with physical or natural processes or phenomena in ways that the scientist imagining them otherwise could not. As such, they help clarify the limits of what is possible in the physical world, or show weaknesses in our understanding of an observable phenomenon, or highlight cracks in a hypothesis or theory. Unencumbered by the physicality of our concrete world, demons are thus useful to scientists in their intellectual quest to understand how nature works, and in the creative exploration of the frontiers of science"--

Creative ability in science --- History. --- AI. --- Alan Turing. --- Brownian motion. --- Bruno Latour. --- Cartesian. --- Erwin Schrödinger. --- French Revolution. --- Johann von Neumann. --- Karl Pearson. --- Laplace’s demon. --- Marie Curie. --- Marvin Minsky. --- Max Born. --- Max Planck. --- Maxwell’s demon. --- Michel Serres. --- Norbert Wiener. --- Oliver G. Selfridge. --- Paul Samuelson. --- Pierre Bourdieu. --- Richard Feynman. --- Werner Heisenberg. --- atomic bomb. --- cybernetics. --- daemon. --- demonology. --- ethics of technology. --- evolution. --- natural selection. --- pandemonium. --- radioactivity. --- religion and science. --- virtual reality.

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"A few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television and radio; we communicated using our analog telephones; and we even computed with analog computers. Today our world is digital, built with zeros and ones. Why did this revolution occur? The Discrete Charm of the Machine explains, in an engaging and accessible manner, the varied physical and logical reasons behind this radical transformation. The spark of individual genius shines through this story of innovation: the stored program of Jacquard’s loom; Charles Babbage’s logical branching; Alan Turing’s brilliant abstraction of the discrete machine; Harry Nyquist’s foundation for digital signal processing; Claude Shannon’s breakthrough insights into the meaning of information and bandwidth; and Richard Feynman’s prescient proposals for nanotechnology and quantum computing. Ken Steiglitz follows the progression of these ideas in the building of our digital world, from the internet and artificial intelligence to the edge of the unknown. Are questions like the famous traveling salesman problem truly beyond the reach of ordinary digital computers? Can quantum computers transcend these barriers? Does a mysterious magical power reside in the analog mechanisms of the brain? Steiglitz concludes by confronting the moral and aesthetic questions raised by the development of artificial intelligence and autonomous robots. The Discrete Charm of the Machine examines why our information technology, the lifeblood of our civilization, became digital, and challenges us to think about where its future trajectory may lead." -- Publisher's description.

Digital communications. --- Technological innovations. --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Communications, Digital --- Digital transmission --- Pulse communication --- Digital electronics --- Pulse techniques (Electronics) --- Telecommunication --- Digital media --- Signal processing --- Digital techniques --- Digital communications --- Technological innovations --- AND gate. --- Alan Turing. --- Algorithm. --- Analog computer. --- Analog device. --- Analog signal. --- Analog-to-digital converter. --- Artificial neural network. --- Autonomous robot. --- Bell's theorem. --- Calculation. --- Charles Babbage. --- Church–Turing thesis. --- Classical physics. --- Claude Shannon. --- Compact disc. --- Computation. --- Computer music. --- Computer program. --- Computer science. --- Computer scientist. --- Computer. --- Computing. --- Data transmission. --- Detection. --- Difference engine. --- Differential equation. --- Digital data. --- Digital electronics. --- Digital signal processing. --- Digital signal. --- Diode. --- Electrical network. --- Electricity. --- Electromagnetic radiation. --- Electronics. --- Exponential growth. --- Field-effect transistor. --- Fourier analysis. --- High frequency. --- Information theory. --- Instance (computer science). --- Instruction set. --- Integrated circuit. --- Integrator. --- Isaac Asimov. --- Johnson–Nyquist noise. --- Laptop. --- Laughter. --- Logarithm. --- Low frequency. --- Mathematician. --- Mathematics. --- Measurement. --- Microphone. --- Microphotograph. --- Microscope. --- Molecule. --- Moore's law. --- NP-completeness. --- Optical fiber. --- P versus NP problem. --- Patch panel. --- Photograph. --- Photon. --- Physicist. --- Probability. --- Processing (programming language). --- Proportionality (mathematics). --- Punched card. --- Quantity. --- Quantum computing. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Radio wave. --- Resistor. --- Result. --- Retransmission (data networks). --- Richard Feynman. --- Scientist. --- Semiconductor. --- Shot noise. --- Silicon. --- Simulation. --- Solid-state electronics. --- Sound recording and reproduction. --- Standardization. --- Technology. --- Television. --- Theorem. --- Theoretical computer science. --- Time complexity. --- Transistor. --- Turing machine. --- Uncertainty. --- Vacuum tube. --- Vacuum. --- Video. --- Wafer (electronics). --- Wave–particle duality. --- Your Computer (British magazine).

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An outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematicsIntegers and permutations-two of the most basic mathematical objects-are born of different fields and analyzed with different techniques. Yet when the Mathematical Sciences Investigation team of crack forensic mathematicians, led by Professor Gauss, begins its autopsies of the victims of two seemingly unrelated homicides, Arnie Integer and Daisy Permutation, they discover the most extraordinary similarities between the structures of each body.Prime Suspects is a graphic novel that takes you on a voyage of forensic discovery, exploring some of the most fundamental ideas in mathematics.Travel with Detective von Neumann as he leaves no clue unturned, from shepherds' huts in the Pyrenees to secret societies in the cafés of Paris, from the hidden codes in the music of the stones to the grisly discoveries in Finite Fields. Tremble at the ferocity of the believers in deep and rigid abstraction. Feel the pain as you work with our young heroine, Emmy Germain, as she blazes a trail for women in mathematical research and learns from Professor Gauss, the greatest forensic detective of them all.Beautifully drawn and wittily and exquisitely detailed, Prime Suspects is unique, astonishing, and outrageous-a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience mathematics like never before.

Mathematics --- Math --- Science --- Accuracy and precision. --- Alan Turing. --- Alexander Grothendieck. --- Analytic number theory. --- Anatoly Vershik. --- Arithmetic. --- Atle Selberg. --- Ben Green (mathematician). --- Bernhard Riemann. --- Bessel function. --- Big O notation. --- Binary logarithm. --- Bryna Kra. --- Calculation. --- Child prodigy. --- Coefficient. --- Comic book. --- Conjecture. --- Coprime integers. --- Cryptography. --- David Hilbert. --- Diagram (category theory). --- Diophantine geometry. --- Diophantus. --- Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. --- Emil Artin. --- Emmy Noether. --- Enrico Bombieri. --- Erica Klarreich. --- Felix Klein. --- Fermat's Last Theorem. --- Fields Medal. --- Friedrich Bessel. --- Fundamental theorem of arithmetic. --- Gamma function. --- Gauss sum. --- Gelfand. --- Grigori Perelman. --- Henri Cartan. --- Hermann Weyl. --- Hilbert's tenth problem. --- Integer. --- Jean-Pierre Serre. --- Joint probability distribution. --- Julia Robinson. --- Keith Devlin. --- Klaus Roth. --- Kloosterman sum. --- Language of mathematics. --- Logarithm. --- Log-log plot. --- Manjul Bhargava. --- Maryam Mirzakhani. --- Mathematical problem. --- Mathematical sciences. --- Mathematician. --- Mathematics. --- Men of Mathematics. --- Millennium Prize Problems. --- Modular form. --- Monic polynomial. --- Multiplication table. --- Natural logarithm. --- Natural number. --- Nicolas Bourbaki. --- Normal distribution. --- Number theory. --- Occam's razor. --- Oswald Veblen. --- Parity (mathematics). --- Permutation. --- Persi Diaconis. --- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. --- Peter Scholze. --- Pierre Deligne. --- Pierre Samuel. --- Plus-minus sign. --- Poisson distribution. --- Polynomial. --- Prime factor. --- Prime number. --- Prime power. --- Probability theory. --- Proportionality (mathematics). --- Pure mathematics. --- Random permutation. --- Richard Dedekind. --- Riemann hypothesis. --- Riemann surface. --- Riemann zeta function. --- Robin Hartshorne. --- Saunders Mac Lane. --- Serge Lang. --- Shinichi Mochizuki. --- Siegel zero. --- Sieve theory. --- Sophie Germain. --- Stirling numbers of the first kind. --- Summation. --- Variable (mathematics).

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