“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral , George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s v...(展开全部)

A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. In the 1940s and ‘50s, a small group of men and...(展开全部)

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral , George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s v...(展开全部)

The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants come from? And why are the laws so fruitful when written in the language of mathematics? P...(展开全部)

作者 葛瑞·雷纳 生于美国马萨诸塞州，原是职业吉他手。1987年受到启发，开始心灵的追寻。1990年迁至缅因州，经历了一连串不可思议的觉醒过程。 如今从事投资顾问工作，并继续写作、旅行、演讲，传播“宽恕”的信息，受到东西方读者的爱戴。 ===================== 译者若水

What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary quantum physicists believe that the void is actually seething with subatomic activity? ...(展开全部)

Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development ...(展开全部)

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on fundamental issues in quantum mechanics, gravitation, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He has wide-ranging interests, including in philosophy, complexity theory, and information. Carroll is an active science communicator, and has been blogging regularly since 2004. Hi...(展开全部)

李元，1925年生于太原。资深科普工作者，已从事科普事业60多年，中国科普研究所研究员。主持并参与了本书的翻译工作。他曾在中国科学院紫金山天文台、北京天文馆、中国科协工作。是北京天文馆和《天文爱好者》期刊的创始人之一，获得多种奖项。1998年国际天文学联合会将国际编号6741的小行星命名为“李元星”。以表彰他对天文科普事业所做出的杰出贡献。 参加本书翻译的译者还有曹军、李鉴、张子平、陈冬妮。他们大多拥有高学历和高级职称。有丰富的学识和多年天文科普工作的经验，均在北京天文馆工作。 帕特里克·摩尔(Patrick Moore)，英帝国司令勋章获得者、英国皇家学会会员、英国皇家天文学会会员。终生研究月球。是许多月面特征的发现者。特别是在难于观测的边缘区域。他也是现代天文学的一位著名的诠释者。他主持的每月一次的BBC电视节目《夜空》。对宇宙...(展开全部)

Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and living organisms, human beings and human consciousness came to be. And yet we thirst for answers to questions that h...(展开全部)