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William Aspray provides the first broad and detailed account of von Neumann's many different contributions to computing. John von Neumann (1903-1957) was unques

John von Neumann was a Jewish refugee from Hungary — considered a “genius” like fellow Hungarians Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller — who pla

This work explores the conception, design, construction, use, and afterlife of ENIAC, the first general purpose digital electronic computer.

Documents the innovations of a group of eccentric geniuses who developed computer code in the mid-20th century as part of mathematician Alan Turin's theoretical

This book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines and the living human b