The Creativity Code
Title | The Creativity Code PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus Du Sautoy |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0674244710 |
“A brilliant travel guide to the coming world of AI.” —Jeanette Winterson What does it mean to be creative? Can creativity be trained? Is it uniquely human, or could AI be considered creative? Mathematical genius and exuberant polymath Marcus du Sautoy plunges us into the world of artificial intelligence and algorithmic learning in this essential guide to the future of creativity. He considers the role of pattern and imitation in the creative process and sets out to investigate the programs and programmers—from Deep Mind and the Flow Machine to Botnik and WHIM—who are seeking to rival or surpass human innovation in gaming, music, art, and language. A thrilling tour of the landscape of invention, The Creativity Code explores the new face of creativity and the mysteries of the human code. “As machines outsmart us in ever more domains, we can at least comfort ourselves that one area will remain sacrosanct and uncomputable: human creativity. Or can we?...In his fascinating exploration of the nature of creativity, Marcus du Sautoy questions many of those assumptions.” —Financial Times “Fascinating...If all the experiences, hopes, dreams, visions, lusts, loves, and hatreds that shape the human imagination amount to nothing more than a ‘code,’ then sooner or later a machine will crack it. Indeed, du Sautoy assembles an eclectic array of evidence to show how that’s happening even now.” —The Times
The Creativity Code
Title | The Creativity Code PDF eBook |
Author | Gore Alex |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-09-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780997927528 |
What if you are one sketch away from success? What if you are one connection away from a breakthrough? The Creativity Code provides the mold to pour your creativity into.
Anyone Can Code
Title | Anyone Can Code PDF eBook |
Author | Ali Arya |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 601 |
Release | 2020-11-23 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0429521162 |
Anyone Can Code: The Art and Science of Logical Creativity introduces computer programming as a way of problem-solving through logical thinking. It uses the notion of modularization as a central lens through which we can make sense of many software concepts. This book takes the reader through fundamental concepts in programming by illustrating them in three different and distinct languages: C/C++, Python, and Javascript. Key features: Focuses on problem-solving and algorithmic thinking instead of programming functions, syntax, and libraries; Includes engaging examples, including video games and visual effects; Provides exercises and reflective questions. This book gives beginner and intermediate learners a strong understanding of what they are doing so that they can do it better and with any other tool or language that they may end up using later.
Cracking the Creativity Code
Title | Cracking the Creativity Code PDF eBook |
Author | Arie Ruttenberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Creative ability |
ISBN | 9789351508014 |
Creativity is an acquired skill, one that improves with practice. This title shows you how! The book provides a proven method for generating world-changing ideas. It empowers individuals who have given up on their innate creativity, who believe that they have lost their creative powers through years of disuse. In a light, entertaining style, the authors describe their unique, structured approach to creativity. To bring the reader closer to this lost art, the authors present a 'Zoom in, Zoom out, Zoom in' technique to make 'creation' more accessible to everyone
The Music of the Primes: Why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters (Text Only)
Title | The Music of the Primes: Why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters (Text Only) PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus du Sautoy |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2012-05-31 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0007375875 |
(This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations.) The ebook of the critically-acclaimed popular science book by a writer who is fast becoming a celebrity mathematician.
Creative Coding in Python
Title | Creative Coding in Python PDF eBook |
Author | Sheena Vaidyanathan |
Publisher | Quarry Books |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2018-12-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1631595814 |
Creative Coding in Python presents over 30 creative projects that teach kids how to code in the easy and intuitive programming language, Python. Creative Coding in Python teaches the fundamentals of computer programming and demonstrates how to code 30+ fun, creative projects using Python, a free, intuitive, open-source programming language that's one of the top five most popular worldwide and one of the most popular Google search terms in the U.S. Computer science educator Sheena Vaidyanathan helps kids understand the fundamental ideas of computer programming and the process of computational thinking using illustrations, flowcharts, and pseudocode, then shows how to apply those essentials to code exciting projects in Python: Chatbots: Discover variables, strings, integers, and more to design conversational programs. Geometric art: Use turtle graphics to create original masterpieces. Interactive fiction: Explore booleans and conditionals to invent "create your own adventure" games. Dice games: Reuse code to devise games of chance. Arcade games and apps: Understand GUI (graphical user interfaces) and create your own arcade games and apps. What’s next? Look at exciting ways to use your powerful new skills and expand your knowledge of coding in Python. Creative Coding in Python gives kids the tools they need to create their own computer programs.
The Great Unknown
Title | The Great Unknown PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus du Sautoy |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2017-04-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0735221812 |
“An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world." --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dream and The Accidental Universe “No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting.” —Bill Bryson Brain Pickings and Kirkus Best Science Book of the Year Every week seems to throw up a new discovery, shaking the foundations of what we know. But are there questions we will never be able to answer—mysteries that lie beyond the predictive powers of science? In this captivating exploration of our most tantalizing unknowns, Marcus du Sautoy invites us to consider the problems in cosmology, quantum physics, mathematics, and neuroscience that continue to bedevil scientists and creative thinkers who are at the forefront of their fields. At once exhilarating, mind-bending, and compulsively readable, The Great Unknown challenges us to consider big questions—about the nature of consciousness, what came before the big bang, and what lies beyond our horizons—while taking us on a virtuoso tour of the great breakthroughs of the past and celebrating the men and women who dared to tackle the seemingly impossible and had the imagination to come up with new ways of seeing the world.