Algorithms to Live By

Name: Algorithms to Live By
ISBN: 9781627790369

Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

359 pages · about 6 hours
First published 2016
11 editions

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1 About this book

Algorithms to Live By looks at the simple, precise algorithms that computers use to solve the complex 'human' problems that we face, and discovers what they can tell us about the nature and origin of the mind.

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Mathematics
Mathematical models
Human behavior
Problem solving
Computer simulation
Human-computer interaction

2 About Brian Christian

Born 1984

Brian Christian (born 1984 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American non-fiction author, researcher, poet, and programmer, best known for a bestselling series of books about the human implications of computer science, including The Most Human Human (2011), Algorithms to Live By (2016), and The Alignment Problem (2020).

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

3 More by Brian Christian

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