Number-crunching : taming unruly computational problems from mathematical physics to science fiction /

How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of everything ever written or eve...

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Author / Creator: Nahin, Paul J.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
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