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"Mark D. Steinberg explores the work of individuals he recognizes as utopians during the most dramatic period in Russian and Soviet history. It has long been a cliché to argue that Russian revolutionary movements have been inspired by varieties of 'utopian dreaming' - claims which, although not wrong, are too often used uncritically. For the first time, Russian Utopian digs deeper and asks what utopians meant at the level of ideas, emotions, and lived experience. Despite the fact that many would have resisted the 'utopian' label at the time because of its dismissive meanings, Steinberg's comprehensive approach sees him take in political leaders, intellectuals, writers, and artists (visual, material, and musical), as well as workers, peasants, soldiers, students and others. Ideologically, the figures discussed range from reactionaries to anarchists, nationalists (including non-Russians) to feminists, both religious believers and 'the militant godless'. This innovative text dissects the very notion of the Russian utopian and examines its significance in its various fascinating contexts."--

Utopias. --- Utopias --- Utopias --- Utopias --- Social values --- History. --- European History (History) --- Intellectual History (History) --- Political Ideologies (Politics) --- History. --- Political aspects --- History --- Social aspects. --- Russia --- Soviet Union --- History --- History.

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Bringing together the histories of mathematics, computer science, and linguistic thought, 'Language and the Rise of the Algorithm' reveals how recent developments in artificial intelligence are reopening an issue that troubled mathematicians well before the computer age - how do you draw the line between computational rules and the complexities of making systems comprehensible to people? By attending to this question, we come to see that the modern idea of the algorithm is implicated in a long history of attempts to maintain a disciplinary boundary separating technical knowledge from the languages people speak day to day.

Semantics. --- intellectual history, history of mathematics, algorithms, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Nicolas de Condorcet, George Boole, programming languages, machine learning. --- Semiotics --- Computer science --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Mathematical linguistics --- Algorithms --- Formal languages --- Mathematical notation --- Language and languages --- Computer programming --- History. --- Philosophy.