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The Computer and the Brain by John Von Neumann
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.67In this classic work, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century explores the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann, whose many... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya 9781324050506
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.84The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya 9781324003991
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $31.53The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one... -
Game Theory: Understanding the Mathematics of Life by Brian Clegg
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour... -
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do by Erik J. Larson
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $19.23"Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it."-John Horgan"If you want to know about AI, read this book...It shows how a supposedly... -
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy by Karl Sigmund 9781541602694
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $27.26"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have... -
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World Tom Chivers 9781399604055
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics,... -
The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code by Walter Isaacson 9781665910675
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.76Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young... -
Darwin Among the Machines by George Dyson 9780718194574
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'Full of historical anecdotes . . . but this is much more than a history book. [George Dyson] weaves his threads together for a purpose. Using voices of the past and present, he describes a fresh and... -
Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson 9781471138805
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovatorsis Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the... -
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Artificial Life by Steven Levy 9780224035996 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.66This is the startling story of a new science - the science of artificial life. It is a science born out of the world of computers, but there is nothing cold or mechanical about it. Instead, making... -
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson 9780141015903
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.08George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone and almost every aspect of modern life came into being.In 1945... -
The awk Programming Language by Alfred Aho
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $32.36Awk was developed in 1977 at Bell Labs, and it's still a remarkably useful tool for solving a wide variety of problems quickly and efficiently. In this update of the classic Awk book, the creators of... -
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.3710TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: UPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACE'Superb ... At a time when government action of any kind is ideologically suspect, and entrepreneurship is unquestioningly lionized, the book's... -
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. 9780201835953
RRP: $46.89Booksplease Price: $35.90Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers... -
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'One of the most influential economists in the world' WiredEven before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the... -
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37WINNER OF THE 2019 MADAME DE STAEL PRIZE AND THE 2018 LEONTIEF PRIZE FOR ADVANCING THE FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018Who really creates... -
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato 9781802060263
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.22There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our...