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| Author | John L. Casti |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Helix Books/Addison-Wesley |
Publication date | 1998 |
The Cambridge Quintet is a book written by John L. Casti and published by Helix Books/Addison Wesley in 1998. [1]
| | |
| Author | John L. Casti |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Helix Books/Addison-Wesley |
Publication date | 1998 |
The Cambridge Quintet is a book written by John L. Casti and published by Helix Books/Addison Wesley in 1998. [1]
The book describes a fictitious dinner party hosted by C. P. Snow at a Cambridge University college in 1949. During the dinner party Snow and his guests discuss the limits of machines trying to simulate human thinking. [2] Snow's guests are Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, J. B. S. Haldane and Alan Turing. [3]
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