Exact Steps: The Long Journey of the Algorithm
In short: This film follows the idea of a precise, written procedure from an Egyptian scribes' papyrus, through the greatest-common-divisor method in Euclid's Elements, al-Khwarizmi and Turing, to collaborative filtering, and it is open about what remains uncertain and about the absence of any direct line between them.
A 1:26 short film in the series “From Fingers to Qubits”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Euclidean algorithm | Algorithm, Division & GCD | Britannica”; British Museum, “papyrus | British Museum”; The Open University (OpenLearn), “Egyptian mathematics”; NASA Earth Observatory (NASA Science), “How Algorithm Got Its Name - NASA Science”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Al-Khwarizmi | Biography & Facts | Britannica”; Science Museum (Science Museum Group), “Lovelace, Turing and the invention of computers | Science Museum”; Academia.edu (re-hosted abstract of the 1994 article 'Origins of the analysis of the Euclidean algorithm'; the original journal is not named on the page), “Origins of the analysis of the Euclidean algorithm”; MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, “Euclid - Biography”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Elements | Euclid, Axioms, & Facts | Britannica”; MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, “Al-Khwarizmi - Biography”; Encyclopedia.com (entry sourced from Gale), “Alan Mathison Turing | Encyclopedia.com”; Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (event listing for a talk by Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota), “The GroupLens Research Project: Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems | Human-Computer Interaction Institute”.
Sources used in this film
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Euclidean algorithm | Algorithm, Division & GCD | Britannica · View →
- British Museum — papyrus | British Museum · View →
- The Open University (OpenLearn) — Egyptian mathematics · View →
- NASA Earth Observatory (NASA Science) — How Algorithm Got Its Name - NASA Science · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Al-Khwarizmi | Biography & Facts | Britannica · View →
- Science Museum (Science Museum Group) — Lovelace, Turing and the invention of computers | Science Museum · View →
- Academia.edu (re-hosted abstract of the 1994 article 'Origins of the analysis of the Euclidean algorithm'; the original journal is not named on the page) — Origins of the analysis of the Euclidean algorithm · View →
- MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews — Euclid - Biography · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Elements | Euclid, Axioms, & Facts | Britannica · View →
- MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews — Al-Khwarizmi - Biography · View →
- Encyclopedia.com (entry sourced from Gale) — Alan Mathison Turing | Encyclopedia.com · View →
- Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (event listing for a talk by Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota) — The GroupLens Research Project: Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems | Human-Computer Interaction Institute · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Euclidean algorithm | Algorithm, Division & GCD | Britannica
- Also: British Museum: papyrus | British Museum
- Also: The Open University (OpenLearn): Egyptian mathematics
- Also: NASA Earth Observatory (NASA Science): How Algorithm Got Its Name - NASA Science
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Al-Khwarizmi | Biography & Facts | Britannica
- Also: Lovelace, Turing and the invention of computers | Science Museum
- Also: Academia.edu (re-hosted abstract of the 1994 article 'Origins of the analysis of the Euclidean algorithm'; the original : Origins of the analysis of the Euclidean algorithm
- Also: mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk — Euclid - Biography
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Elements | Euclid, Axioms, & Facts | Britannica
- Also: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews: Al-Khwarizmi - Biography
- Also: Encyclopedia.com (entry sourced from Gale): Alan Mathison Turing | Encyclopedia.com
- Also: Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (event listing for a talk by Joseph A. Konstan, Univers: The GroupLens Research Project: Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems | Human-Computer Interaction Institute
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