title: The Advent of  the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
author:  David Berlinski 
description: Francis Sullivan of the Institute for Defense Analysis said "Great algorithms are the poetry of computation"; David Berlinski calls the algorithm "the idea that rules the world." <I>The Advent of the Algorithm</I> is not so much a history of algorithms as a historical fantasia. Berlinski spins freely between semifictional accounts of historical figures, personal reminiscence, and mathematical proofs--without ever really defining an algorithm in so many words.
zlib_text: Daniel Neyland
  
  The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
  
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  Daniel Neyland
  
  Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
  
  ISBN 978-3-030-00577-1 e-ISBN 978-3-030-00578-8
  
  <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00578-8>
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2018959729
  
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