Algorithmic Modernity Mechanizing Thought and Action 1500 2000 1st Edition by Morgan Ames, Massimo Mazzotti 019750244X 9780197502440

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ISBN-13 :  9780197502440

Author : Morgan G. Ames, Massimo Mazzotti 

Algorithms have been transforming human society long before the advent of computing. Yet they continue to exist in relative invisibility despite their presence behind many of our modern social interactions. The rhetoric of algorithmic neutrality is more alive than ever, and algorithms are often depicted as obvious and unproblematic—without context and without history.Algorithmic Modernity draws together the history of mathematics and intellectual history to convey the enduring global history of the algorithm as a computational tool, epistemic ideal, and rhetorical figure alongside the ascendance of modernity. Through historical reconstructions of relevant thinkers and cultural phenomena over the last five hundred years, this collection of essays reveals how algorithms became the standard method for solving problems from the early inclusion of algorithms in Newton’s formation of calculus to their later influence in the New Deal economy. Together, these essays create an informed history for readers interested in the social and cultural implications of today’s pervasive digital algorithm.Featuring experts in mathematics, history, and computing, Algorithmic Modernity presents a multi-faceted exploration of the genealogy of algorithmic thinking in modern times.

Algorithmic Modernity: Mechanizing Thought and Action, 1500-2000 1st Table of contents:

1. Algorithm and Demonstration in the Sixteenth-Century Ars Magna
2. “Some Call It Arsmetrike, and Some Awgryme”: Misprision and Precision in Algorithmic Thinking and Learning in 1543 and Beyond
3. The Orderly Universe: How the Calculus Became an Algorithm
4. The Algorithmic Enlightenment
5. Capitalism by Algorithm: Numbers for the Innumerate in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
6. Material Mathematics: British Algebra as Algorithmic Mathematics
7. “For Computing Is Our Duty”: Algorithmic Workers, Servants, and Women at the Harvard Observatory
8. Seeds of Control: Sugar Beets, Control Algorithms, and New Deal Data Politics
9. Inference Rituals: Algorithms and the History of Statistics
10. Decision Trees, Random Forests, and the Genealogy of the Black Box

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