Algorithm/history - Development of The Notion of Algorithm

Famous quotes containing the words history, development and/or notion:

    “The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “And then ... he flung open the door of my compartment, and ushered in “Ma young and lovely lady!” I muttered to myself with some bitterness. “And this is, of course, the opening scene of Vol. I. She is the Heroine. And I am one of those subordinate characters that only turn up when needed for the development of her destiny, and whose final appearance is outside the church, waiting to greet the Happy Pair!””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)