| 书目名称 | Routines of Substitution |
| 副标题 | John von Neumann’s W |
| 编辑 | Mark Priestley |
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| 概述 | Presents the text of a hitherto unpublished seminal work in the history of computing.Provides an accessible and rich contextual discussion of an article by von Neumann.Describes the earliest known exa |
| 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in History of Computing |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .This work is a historical and philosophical study of the programming work carried out by John von Neumann in the period 1945-8. At the heart of the book is an examination of a manuscript featuring the earliest known surviving example of von Neumann’s coding, a routine written in 1945 to ‘mesh’ two sequences of data and intended to be part of a larger program implementing the algorithm now known as mergesort..The text of the manuscript itself, along with a preliminary document describing the code he used to write this program, are reproduced as appendices. The program is approached in three chapters describing the historical background to von Neumann’s work, the significance of the sorting application itself, and the development of the EDVAC, the machine for which the program was written. The subsequent chapters widen the focus again, discussing the subsequent evolution of the program and the crucial topic of subroutines, before concluding by situating von Neumann’s work in a number of wider contexts. The book also offers a unifying philosophical interpretation of von Neumann’s approach to coding.. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2018 |
| 关键词 | John von Neumann; Sorting Algorithms; EDVAC; Early Computer Programs; Software Development |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91671-2 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-91670-5 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-91671-2Series ISSN 2662-3005 Series E-ISSN 2662-3013 |
| issn_series | 2662-3005 |
| copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 |
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