The formula: how algorithms solve all our problems --and create more

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Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date:
2014
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First American edition
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English
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In The Formula, Luke Dormehl takes readers inside the world of numbers, asking how we came to believe in the all-conquering power of algorithms; introducing the mathematicians, artificial intelligence experts and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are shaping this brave new world, and ultimately asking how we survive in an era where numbers can sometimes seem to create as many problems as they solve.
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