The maniac

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From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AI

Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of the Year, it explored the life and thought of a clutch of mathematicians and physicists who took science to strange and sometimes dangerous new realms. In The MANIAC, Labatut has created a tour de force on an even grander scale.

A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. Through a chorus of family members, friends, colleagues, and rivals, Labatut shows us the evolution of a mind unmatched and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake.

The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych that begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and friend of Einstein, who fell into despair when he saw science and technology become tyrannical forces; it ends a hundred years later, in the showdown between the South Korean Go Master Lee Sedol and the AI program AlphaGo, an encounter embodying the central question of von Neumann's most ambitious unfinished project: the creation of a self-reproducing machine, an intelligence able to evolve beyond human understanding or control.

A work of beauty and fabulous momentum, The MANIAC confronts us with the deepest questions we face as a species.

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De Maniac

Rating: 4.5 / 5 | Prijs: € 27.99

Een duizelingwekkende caleidoscopische roman over de vernietigende chaos die schuilt in de geschiedenis van computers en ai johnny von neumann was een enigma als jonge man verbijsterde hij zijn omgeving met zijn monomane jacht op de onwrikbare grondslagen van de wiskunde maar toen zijn geloof in Op voorraad. Voor 23:00 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

The MANIAC

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The author of when we cease to understand the world a dazzling kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and ai Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

When We Cease to Understand the World

Rating: 5 / 5 | Prijs: € 12.71

A guardian and new statesman book of the year now in paperback the fast paced mind expanding literary work about scientific discovery and the unsettled distinctionbetween genius and madness shortlisted for the 2021 international booker prize Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 oktober 2023

Aantal pagina's: 368

Kaarten inbegrepen: Nee

Illustraties: Met illustraties

Hoofdauteur: Benjamín Labatut

Hoofduitgeverij: The Penguin Press

AI-gegenereerd: Nee

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 157 mm

Product hoogte: 30 mm

Product lengte: 236 mm

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Verpakking breedte: 159 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 35 mm

Verpakking lengte: 235 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 587 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9780593654477

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