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245 00 a| Algorithmic modernityh| [electronic resource] :b| mechanizing thought and action, 1500-2000 /c| edited by Morgan G. Ames and Massimo Mazzotti.;

260 a| New York, NY :b| Oxford University Press,c| [2023];

300 a| ix, 301 pages ;c| 25 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-286) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction / Morgan G. Ames and Massimo Mazzotti -- Algorithm and demonstration in the sixteenth-century Ars magna / Abram Kaplan -- "Some call it arsmetrike, and some awgryme" : misprision and precision in algorithmic thinking and learning in 1543 and beyond / Michael J. Barany -- The orderly universe : how the calculus became an algorithm / Amir Alexander -- The algorithmic Enlightenment / J.B. Shank -- Capitalism by algorithm : numbers for the innumerate in the 18th and 19th century Atlantic world -- Caitlin C. Rosenthal -- Material mathematics : British algebra as algorithmic mathematics / Kevin Lambert -- "For computing is our duty" : algorithmic workers, servants, and women at the Harvard Observatory / Andrew Fiss -- Seeds of control : sugar beets, control algorithms, and New Deal data politics / Theodora Dryer -- Inference rituals : algorithms and the history of statistics / Christopher J. Phillips -- Decision trees, random forests, and the genealogy of the black box / Matthew L. Jones.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "The rhetoric of algorithmic neutrality is more alive than ever-why? This volume explores key moments in the historical emergence of algorithmic practices and in the constitution of their credibility and authority since 1500. If algorithms are historical objects and their associated meanings and values are situated and contingent-and if we are to push back against rhetorical claims of otherwise-then the genealogical investigation this book offers is essential to understand the power of the algorithm. The fact that algorithms create the conditions for many of our encounters with social reality contrasts starkly with their relative invisibility. More than other artifacts, algorithms are easily black-boxed. Rather than contingent and modifiable, they are widely seen as obvious and unproblematic-without context and without history. As an antidote, this volume keeps a clear focus on the emergence and continuous reconstitution of algorithmic practices alongside the ascendance of modernity. Its essays highlight the trajectory of an algorithmic modernity, one characterized by attitudes and practices that are best emblematized by the modernist aesthetic and inhuman efficacy of the algorithm. The volume moves from early modern algorithmic practices, centered on heuristics for arithmetic operations, emphasizing ruptures, shifts, and variations across times and cultures. By the age of Enlightenment, the term algorithm had come to signify any process of systematic calculation that could be carried out mechanically, but its meaning and implications are still distant from those familiar to us . It's in the nineteenth and twentieth century that the meaning of algorithm is sharpened through a new discipline and by adding sets of specific conditions-such as the condition of finiteness-which acquire new and crucial significance in the age of digital computing. Throughout, the connection between algorithms and modernity is one of our central concerns. Through detailed historical reconstructions of specific moments, thinkers, and cultural phenomena over the last five hundred years, these essays lead us to the definitions of algorithm most legible today and to the pervasiveness of both algorithmic procedures and rhetoric. This volume contributes a multi-faceted exploration of the genealogies of algorithms, of algorithmic thinking, and of the distinctly modernist faith in algorithms as neutral tools that merely illuminate the natural and social world"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Algorithmic modernity mechanizing thought and action, 1500-2000 / edited by Morgan G. Ames and Massimo Mazzotti.

Other author	Ames, Morgan G.
Other author	Mazzotti, Massimo.
Other author	Oxford University Press.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Description	ix, 301 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subjects	Algorithms--History. Mathematics--History.

Contents	Introduction / Morgan G. Ames and Massimo Mazzotti -- Algorithm and demonstration in the sixteenth-century Ars magna / Abram Kaplan -- "Some call it arsmetrike, and some awgryme" : misprision and precision in algorithmic thinking and learning in 1543 and beyond / Michael J. Barany -- The orderly universe : how the calculus became an algorithm / Amir Alexander -- The algorithmic Enlightenment / J.B. Shank -- Capitalism by algorithm : numbers for the innumerate in the 18th and 19th century Atlantic world -- Caitlin C. Rosenthal -- Material mathematics : British algebra as algorithmic mathematics / Kevin Lambert -- "For computing is our duty" : algorithmic workers, servants, and women at the Harvard Observatory / Andrew Fiss -- Seeds of control : sugar beets, control algorithms, and New Deal data politics / Theodora Dryer -- Inference rituals : algorithms and the history of statistics / Christopher J. Phillips -- Decision trees, random forests, and the genealogy of the black box / Matthew L. Jones.
Abstract	"The rhetoric of algorithmic neutrality is more alive than ever-why? This volume explores key moments in the historical emergence of algorithmic practices and in the constitution of their credibility and authority since 1500. If algorithms are historical objects and their associated meanings and values are situated and contingent-and if we are to push back against rhetorical claims of otherwise-then the genealogical investigation this book offers is essential to understand the power of the algorithm. The fact that algorithms create the conditions for many of our encounters with social reality contrasts starkly with their relative invisibility. More than other artifacts, algorithms are easily black-boxed. Rather than contingent and modifiable, they are widely seen as obvious and unproblematic-without context and without history. As an antidote, this volume keeps a clear focus on the emergence and continuous reconstitution of algorithmic practices alongside the ascendance of modernity. Its essays highlight the trajectory of an algorithmic modernity, one characterized by attitudes and practices that are best emblematized by the modernist aesthetic and inhuman efficacy of the algorithm. The volume moves from early modern algorithmic practices, centered on heuristics for arithmetic operations, emphasizing ruptures, shifts, and variations across times and cultures. By the age of Enlightenment, the term algorithm had come to signify any process of systematic calculation that could be carried out mechanically, but its meaning and implications are still distant from those familiar to us . It's in the nineteenth and twentieth century that the meaning of algorithm is sharpened through a new discipline and by adding sets of specific conditions-such as the condition of finiteness-which acquire new and crucial significance in the age of digital computing. Throughout, the connection between algorithms and modernity is one of our central concerns. Through detailed historical reconstructions of specific moments, thinkers, and cultural phenomena over the last five hundred years, these essays lead us to the definitions of algorithm most legible today and to the pervasiveness of both algorithmic procedures and rhetoric. This volume contributes a multi-faceted exploration of the genealogies of algorithms, of algorithmic thinking, and of the distinctly modernist faith in algorithms as neutral tools that merely illuminate the natural and social world"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-286) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2022018922
ISBN	9780197502426 (hardback)
ISBN	(epub)

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