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Budiansky, Stephen.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004

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Budiansky, Stephen

Summary: "The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution. Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GODEL, KURT BUD

Budiansky, Stephen.

Summary: In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the underdog coterie of American seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy, who combined bravery and strategic innovation to hold off the legendary Royal Navy. Budiansky vividly demonstrates that far from an indecisive and unnecessary conflict--as historians have long dismissed the War of 1812--this "forgotten war" had...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011

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Budiansky, Stephen.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 BUD

Budiansky, Stephen

Summary: "A sweeping history of the NSA and its codebreaking achievements from World War II through the Cold War shares insights into the challenges faced by cryptanalysts and their role in some of the most complicated events of the twentieth century,"--NoveList.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 BUD

Budiansky, Stephen.

Summary: "Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the Battle of Midway until the last German code was broken in January 1945, this is an astonishing epic of a war that was won not simply by brute strength but also by reading the enemy's intentions." "This is the story of the Allied codebreakers puzzling through the most difficult codebreaking problems that ever...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5485 BUD

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