Routines of Substitution: John Von Neumann's Work on Software Development, 1945-1948

by Mark Priestley

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331991670X
• ISBN13: 9783319916705
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"