Language and the rise of the algorithm / Jeffrey M. Binder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Binder, Jeffrey M., author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Algorithms--History.

Algorithms.

Formal languages--History.

Formal languages.

Mathematical notation--History.

Mathematical notation.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Semantics.

Computer programming--History.

Computer programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2023]

Summary:

Bringing together the histories of mathematics, computer science, and linguistic thought, 'Language and the Rise of the Algorithm' reveals how recent developments in artificial intelligence are reopening an issue that troubled mathematicians well before the computer age - how do you draw the line between computational rules and the complexities of making systems comprehensible to people? By attending to this question, we come to see that the modern idea of the algorithm is implicated in a long history of attempts to maintain a disciplinary boundary separating technical knowledge from the languages people speak day to day.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One. Symbols and Language in the Early Modern Period

Chapter Two. The Matter Out of Which Thought Is Formed

Chapter Three. Symbols and the Enlightened Mind

Chapter Four. Language without Things

Chapter Five. Mass Produced Software Components

Coda. The Age of Arbitrariness

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 6, 2023).

ISBN:

0-226-82254-0

OCLC:

1347026400