A. K. Dewdney
Autor/a de The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-dimensional World
Sobre l'autor
Recreations, his column which appeared in Scientific American for more than eight years. He has been an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada since 1968, and is president of Turing Omnibus, Inc. Among his many books on computer science, science and mostra'n més mathematics are Two Hundred Percent of Nothing (1993), an effort to expose abuses of math and statistics in everyday life and its companion work, Yes, We Have No Neutrons (1997). Dewdney is also interested in growing and distributing rare native trees, as manifested in his book, Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place (1998). Hungry Hollow examines the elements of a natural habitat in both time and space. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: A.K. Dewdney [source: back jacket flap of The Tinkertoy Computer and Other Machinations, 1993]
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Obres de A. K. Dewdney
200% of Nothing: An Eye Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy (1993) 179 exemplars
Yes, We Have No Neutrons: An Eye-Opening Tour through the Twists and Turns of Bad Science (1997) 109 exemplars
Computer Recreations 1 exemplars
Computer-Kurzweil III - Sonderheft Spektrum der Wissenschaft / Scientific American (1989) 1 exemplars
Turing Omnibus: Sixty One Excursions in Computer Science by Dewdney, A. K. (1989) Hardcover (1989) 1 exemplars
20.000 Léguas Matemáticas 1 exemplars
20. 000 LÉGUAS MATEMÁTICAS 1 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Dewdney, A. K.
- Nom oficial
- Dewdney, Alexander Keewatin
- Altres noms
- Dewdney, Keewatin
Dewdney, Kee - Data de naixement
- 1941-08-05
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Canada
- Lloc de naixement
- London, Ontario, Canada
- Llocs de residència
- London, Ontario, Canada
- Educació
- University of Western Ontario
University of Waterloo - Professions
- mathematician
computer scientist
philosopher
editor
environmental scientist
conservationist (mostra-les totes 7)
author - Relacions
- Dewdney, Selwyn (father)
Dewdney, Christopher (brother) - Organitzacions
- University of Western Ontario (Professor Emeritus)
Ecological Society of America
American Mathematical Society
Association for Computing Machinery
British Society for the History of Mathematics
Canadian Information Processing Society (mostra-les totes 11)
Canadian Society for Computational Studies in Intelligence
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation
McIlwraith Field Naturalists
Thames Talbot Land Trust
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 25
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 1,824
- Popularitat
- #14,101
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 26
- ISBN
- 54
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 3