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Synopsis
This breezy book gives you the whole fascinating story, from the first stone Age tally stick to the latest"intelligent" computers... with all the thinkers...
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Review
"A pure delight . . . Entirely offbeat, which gives it its charm." --"The Denver Post"
"A very readable account." --"Science"
"A cheerful work." --"Scientific American"
A pure delight . . . Entirely offbeat, which gives it its charm. "The Denver Post"
A very readable account. "Science"
A cheerful work. "Scientific American""
-A pure delight . . . Entirely offbeat, which gives it its charm.- --The Denver Post
-A very readable account.- --Science
-A cheerful work.- --Scientific American
"A pure delight . . . Entirely offbeat, which gives it its charm." --The Denver Post
"A very readable account." --Science
"A cheerful work." --Scientific American
About the Author
Petr Beckmann was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1924. Until 1963, he worked as a research scientist for the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, when he was invited as a Visiting Professor to the University of Colorado, where he decided to stay permanently as professor of electrical engineering. He has authored eleven books and more than fifty scientific papers, mostly on probability theory and electromagnetic wave propagation.
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