Peter J. Bentley (1) (1972–)
Autor(a) de The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and How They Changed the World
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About the Author
Peter J. Bentley maps out the breakthroughs in theory and technology that have brought us from Alan Turing's original ideas in the 1940s to the omnipresent reality of our digitized world today. This is the extraordinary story of computer science, of pioneering individuals and leaps of imagination mostrar mais that have revolutionized our world-and will continue to revolutionize it in future. mostrar menos
Obras por Peter J. Bentley
The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and How They Changed the World (2008) — Autor — 142 exemplares
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- Nome canónico
- Bentley, Peter J.
- Data de nascimento
- 1972-05-16
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Colchester, Essex, England, UK
- Educação
- University of Essex (BSc | Artificial Intelligence ∙ 1993)
University of Huddersfield (PhD | Evolutionary Computation ∙ 1996) - Ocupações
- researcher (Computer Science ∙ University College London)
Honorary Professor and Teaching Fellow, University College London
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Membros
- 445
- Popularidade
- #55,082
- Avaliação
- 3.2
- Críticas
- 14
- ISBN
- 65
- Línguas
- 6
The Undercover Scientist by Peter Bentley attempts to address the underlying science behind everyday workings through a day in the life of an extremely unlucky individual. The problems described are extremely varied, but the underlying science is sound and well cited. Unfortunately, the level of science is fairly varied, ranging from interesting explanations of lightning to mundane gravity. I appreciate that it is targeted at the non scientist, but the decision to force the events into a fictional day mean that there is little order to the grouping of the problems. There is an index, but I am hardly going to use this as a reference - the contents is useless since each chapter title is not particularly informative as to the matters discussed.
A fairly short and mildly entertaining read, but not challenging or interesting enough to recommend.… (mais)