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Landowska, Wanda

Landsberg, Peter

Lane, Anthony,
15.1
,
15.2

language

adaptations for telegraphy,
5.1
,
5.2

Babbage’s work on,
4.1
,
4.2

compressibility of

concept of mind and

for discussing language,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1

functions of,
5.1
,
5.2

as infinite possibility,
epl.1
,
epl.2

limitations of

measuring redundancy in,
1.1
,
1.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

paradoxes of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

pattern analysis

perfect

redundancy in,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
12.1

as shared experience

statistical structure of,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

symbolic expression of,
5.1
,
5.2

technical,
3.1
,
3.2

transmission capacity of Internet and,
3.1
,
3.2

universal,
4.1
,
6.1

see also
oral culture; writing;
specific language

Language Instinct, The
(Pinker),
3.1
,
3.2

Lanier, Jaron

Laplace, Pierre-Simon,
14.1
,
14.2

Lardner, Dionysius,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
5.1
,
5.2

Lasker, Edward

Latin language,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

Laws of Thought, The
(Boole),
5.1
,
5.2

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
15.1
,
epl.1

Lem, Stanislaw

Le Roy, Édouard

Le Sage, Georges-Louis

Lever, Ralph

Levor, Norma,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

Leyland numbers

Li, Ming,
11.1
,
11.2

liar’s paradox

libraries, organization of materials in,
3.1
,
3.2
,
15.1

Library of Alexandria,
14.1
,
14.2

“Library of Babel, The” (Borges),
14.1
,
14.2
,
15.1
,
epl.1
,
epl.2

Library of Congress,
7.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
epl.1

Licklider, J. C. R.,
8.1
,
8.2

life

definition of,
9.1
,
9.2

entropy and,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

origins of,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
11.1

as vehicle for propagating memes

see also
biology

lighthouses

Linnaeus, Carl

Littlewood, J. E.

Lloyd, Seth,
prl.1
,
13.1
,
14.1

Locke, John

Loewenstein, Werner,
prl.1
,
10.1

Logarithmicall Arithmetike
(Briggs)

logarithms,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
4.7
,
4.8
,
4.9
,
4.10
,
4.11
,
4.12
,
4.13
,
4.14
,
4.15
,
4.16
,
4.17
,
4.18
,
4.19
,
4.20
,
4.21
,
7.1
,
7.2

Logarithms
(Taylor)

logic

circularity problem of words,
3.1
,
3.2

concept of machines using,
7.1
,
7.2

form of thinking for,
2.1
,
2.2

function of,
2.1
,
2.2

origins and early development of,
2.1
,
2.2

paradoxes of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

thought and,
5.1
,
5.2

writing and,
2.1
,
2.2

see also
symbolic logic

logical depth,
12.1
,
12.2

logographic writing

Lokele tribe

longitude,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2

Lovelace, Ada,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
4.7
,
4.8
,
4.9
,
4.10
,
4.11
,
4.12
,
4.13
,
4.14
,
4.15
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

background of,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

exposition on Menabrea’s essay,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5

illnesses and death of,
4.1
,
4.2

mathematics studied by,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4

Luria, Aleksandr Romanovich,
2.1
,
2.2

Lyell, Charles

Lysenko, Trofim

Ma, Bin,
11.1
,
11.2

machines

Analytical Engine,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
4.7
,
4.8
,
4.9
,
4.10
,
4.11
,
4.12
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
8.1

attribution of thinking to,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
8.7
,
8.8

Difference Engine,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
4.7
,
4.8
,
4.9
,
4.10
,
4.11
,
4.12
,
4.13
,
4.14
,
4.15
,
4.16
,
4.17
,
4.18
,
6.1

Differential Analyzer,
prl.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
8.1

Enigma,
7.1
,
7.2

Imitation Game to identify humans from,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

Jacquard loom,
4.1
,
4.2

maze-navigating robot,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

memory function in

to prove computability of numbers,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
7.6

purposeful behavior of

self-replicating,
8.1
,
8.2

standardization of manufacturing

see also
calculators; computer(s); Turing machine(s)

Mackay, Charles

macrostates,
9.1
,
9.2

“Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, The” (Miller)

magnetism,
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2

Mani, Anand Ramnath,
14.1
,
14.2

Mantel, Hillary

maps and mapping,
4.1
,
7.1
,
14.1

Mark I computer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
prl.3
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
12.1
,
14.1
,
epl.1

Mathematical Analysis of Logic
(Boole)

Mathematical Theory of Communication, The
(Shannon, Weaver),
prl.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
7.6
,
7.7
,
7.8
,
7.9
,
7.10
,
7.11
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
epl.1

“Mathematical Theory of Cryptography, A” (Shannon)

mathematics

Babbage’s Cambridge studies in,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5

Bablyonian,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
2.6

ballistics modeling,
6.1
,
6.2

code analysis

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