0: Introduction
1: Ancient Algorithms
2: Ever Expanding Circles
3: Computer Dreams
4: Weather Forecasts
5: Artificial Intelligence Emerges
6: Needles in Haystacks
7: The Internet
8: Googling the Web
9: Facebook and Friends
10: America's Favourite Quiz Show
11: Mimicking the Brain
12: Superhuman Intelligence
13: Next Steps
Chris Bleakley has thirty-five years of experience in algorithm
design. He has taught and written on the subject for the last
sixteen of those years.
As a school kid, Chris taught himself how to program on a cheap
home computer. Within two years, he was selling his own computer
programs by mail-order to customers throughout the UK.
Chris graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science from
Queen's University, Belfast, and a PhD degree in Electronic
Engineering from Dublin City University. After college, he was
employed as a software consultant by Accenture and, later, as a
senior telecommunications researcher at Broadcom Eireann Research.
Poems that Solve Puzzles is a thorough investigation into the
history of algorithms...It is an enjoyable read for anyone curious
about how algorithms developed and were implemented throughout
history.'
*Notices of the American Mathematical Society*
Poems that Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms is
an informative and entertaining book. It is appropriate for a wide
swath of readers, from people who are interested in learning about
what "blockchain" is without having to do any math to students and
instructors in the mathematical sciences who need more examples of
how these academic topics make important contributions to the
technologically complex world we live in.
*Ron Buckmire, Occidental College, Mathematical Association of
America*
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