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A 1931 poster for the first five-year plan of the Soviet Union by Yakov Guminer reading "The arithmetic of an industrial-financial counter-plan: 2 + 2 plus the enthusiasm of the workers = 5" The statement " 2 + 2 = 5 ", used to torment Winston Smith during his interrogation, was a communist party slogan from the second five-year plan , which ...
In chapter 6 of his later discursive book "Summa Technologiae", first published in 1964, he discussed in detail the identity paradoxes associated with teleportation and hibernation of human beings. Similar questions of identity have been raised as early as 1775.
Beginning on January 1, 1984, The New York Times Book Review introduced revised and expanded best seller lists to "clarify categories of book buying". The hardcover books list was previously divided into two lists: fiction (15 titles) and general (15 titles).
June 6. A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian soldier and author (born 1912) Hugh Sykes Davies, English poet and novelist (born 1909) June 10 – Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Turkish poet and novelist (born 1901) June 30 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (born 1905) [6] July 6 – Denys Val Baker, Welsh novelist and short story writer ...
The use of contradictory names in this manner may have been inspired by the British and American governments; during the Second World War, the British Ministry of Food oversaw rationing (the name "Ministry of Food Control" was used in World War I) and the Ministry of Information restricted and controlled information, rather than supplying it; while, in the U.S., the War Department was ...
It is known as the "Wizard Book" in hacker culture. [1] It teaches fundamental principles of computer programming, including recursion, abstraction, modularity, and programming language design and implementation. MIT Press published the first edition in 1984, and the second edition in
The book was first published in 1981 and has since gone through two subsequent editions, which have added to, but not changed, the original text. The second edition, published in 1984, adds a postscript replying to critics of the first edition; the third edition, published in 2007, contains a new prologue entitled " After Virtue After a Quarter ...
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History is an influential collection of essays on the cultural history of early modern France by the American historian Robert Darnton, first published in 1984. The book's title is derived from its most famous chapter which describes and interprets an unusual source detailing the ...