Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Principal Characters xvii
1 1953
3(8)
2 Olden Farm
11(7)
3 Veblen's Circle
18(22)
4 Neumann Janos
40(24)
5 Maniac
64(24)
6 Fuld 219
88(20)
7 6J6
108(22)
8 V-40
130(24)
9 Cyclogenesis
154(21)
10 Monte Carlo
175(25)
11 Ulam's Demons
200(25)
12 Barricelli's Universe
225(18)
13 Turing's Cathedral
243(23)
14 Engineer's Dreams
266(16)
15 Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
282(12)
16 Mach 9
294(9)
17 The Tale of the Big Computer
303(12)
18 The Thirty-ninth Step
315(24)
Key to Archival Sources 339(2)
Notes 341(38)
Index 379