Description: To understand the future of mathematics, this fascinating book returns to its past, tracing the hidden history that follows the thread of computation.
Brief description: Gilles Dowek is a mathematician, logician and computer scientist, and currently a researcher at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA). He is a member of the scientific board of the Société informatique de France and of CERNA. He is also a consultant with the National Institute of Aerospace, a NASA-affiliated laboratory. He is the recipient of the French Mathematical Society's Grand Prix d'Alembert des Lycéens for his popular science work.
Review Quotes: 'Dowek's book is a superb overview of the transformation of mathematics toward becoming a computational science. It is historically rich, philosophically inquisitive and mathematically rigorous.' Andrew Arana, Metascience