![]() The bottom line is that (a) I’m glad I read it and (b) I won’t be reading it again (grin). The book is replete with interesting details – but it’s also jam-packed with boring details. ![]() The central character is the Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath John von Neumann, but we also get introduced to a “cast of thousands”. This is more of a description of the pioneering development of computing in America during the decade after World War II. This isn’t a book about Alan Turing, although he does get a few good mentions. ![]() I pretty much agree with all of them – both “for” and “against”. You can read the reviews of Turing's Cathedral on Amazon. (I mistakenly recollected the Einstein book as also being a work of George Dyson’s). One of the reason’s I got Turing's Cathedral in the first place (apart from the fact that I love learning about the history of computing) is that I really enjoyed the biography Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson. ![]() I was going to write a review on it, but – sad to relate – I really couldn’t rouse the enthusiasm… I just finished reading Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson. ![]()
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