Houston Seminar in Excel VBA Macros

Synopsis of The Advent of Algorithm.

Sergio Perez Rodriguez

EG, PDG, MSc

August 2020
Algorithms play a crucial role in programming, as they are the codes of instructions directing the
operations made by the computers. Programmers able to design new problem-solving algorithms can
find elusive solutions, and in the meantime hit the jackpot. Logicians and mathematicians that invented
the algorithm paved the way to the transformation of the virtual reality of our world present through
computers and the Internet.

Leibniz, the XVII century German philosopher and scientist, trail blazered the way to the creation of
algorithms, which found its main road in the middle of the XX century with the fundamental
contributions of Gödel and Turing.

David Berlinski wrote this lucid and captivating saga of the human intellect in an amenable way for
readers of any trade.
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