Description
About the Author
Chris Bleakley has thirty-five years of experience in algorithm design. He has taught and written on the subject for the last sixteen of those years. As a school kid, Chris taught himself how to program on a cheap home computer. Within two years, he was selling his own computer programs by mail-order to customers throughout the UK. Chris graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science from Queen's University, Belfast, and a PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University. After college, he was employed as a software consultant by Accenture and, later, as a senior telecommunications researcher at Broadcom Eireann Research.
Reviews
Poems that Solve Puzzles is a thorough investigation into the history of algorithms...It is an enjoyable read for anyone curious about how algorithms developed and were implemented throughout history.' * Notices of the American Mathematical Society *
Poems that Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms is an informative and entertaining book. It is appropriate for a wide swath of readers, from people who are interested in learning about what "blockchain" is without having to do any math to students and instructors in the mathematical sciences who need more examples of how these academic topics make important contributions to the technologically complex world we live in. * Ron Buckmire, Occidental College, Mathematical Association of America *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198853732
Author Chris Bleakley
Format Hardback
Page Count 284
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 504g
Dimensions(mm) 221mm * 147mm * 22mm