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This essay is designed to be read by an intelligent layman: one who is expert neither in computing nor in mathematics but is competent in some other science such as chemistry or one of the biologies.
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Truesdell, C. (1984). The Computer: Ruin of Science and Threat to Mankind (1980/1982). In: An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8185-3_41
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