9 Algorithms That Changed the Future
{{short description|2012 book by John MacCormick}}
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| subject = Algorithm
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| publisher = Princeton University Press
| pub_date = 2012
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| pages = 232
| isbn = 978-0691158198
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9 Algorithms that Changed the Future is a 2012 book by John MacCormick on algorithms. The book seeks to explain commonly encountered computer algorithms to a layman audience.
Summary
The chapters in the book each cover an algorithm.
Response
One reviewer said the book is written in a clear and simple style.{{cite web |url= http://www.zdnet.com/article/nine-algorithms-that-changed-the-future-book-review/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141223033250/http://www.zdnet.com/article/nine-algorithms-that-changed-the-future-book-review/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= December 23, 2014 |title=Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: Book review|first=Wendy M |last=Grossman |work=ZDNet |date=September 25, 2012 |access-date=9 June 2015}}
A reviewer for New York Journal of Books suggested that this book would be a good complement to an introductory college-level computer science course.{{cite web |url= http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/nine-algorithms-changed-future-ingenious-ideas-drive-today%E2%80%99s-computers |title=a book review by Dr. Richard Isaacman: Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas that Drive Today’s Computers |first=Richard |last=Isaacman |work=nyjournalofbooks.com |date=n.d. |access-date=9 June 2015}}
Another reviewer called the book "a valuable addition to the popular computing literature".{{cite web |url= http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2012/06/11/reading-diary-nine-algorithms-that-changed-the-future-by-john-maccormick/ |title=Reading Diary: Nine algorithms that changed the future by John MacCormick |first=John |last=Dupuis |work=scienceblogs.com |date=June 11, 2012 |access-date=9 June 2015}}
2020 edition
The book has been re-released by Princeton University Press in 2020.{{cite web |url= https://www.dickinson.edu/johnmaccormick |title=New edition and audiobook of "9 Algorithms"|first=John |last=MacCormick |work=dickinson.edu |date=n.d. |access-date=28 September 2021}}{{cite web |url= https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691209067/nine-algorithms-that-changed-the-future |title=Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers |work=princeton.edu |date=n.d. |access-date=28 September 2021}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE6GKAjH8NI short video of the author talking about the book]