| The Cambridge Quintet | |
| Author: | John L. Casti |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Helix Books/Addison-Wesley |
| Release Date: | 1998 |
The Cambridge Quintet is a book written by John L. Casti and published by Helix Books/Addison Wesley in 1998.[1]
The book describes a fictitious dinner party hosted by C. P. Snow at a Cambridge University college in 1949. During the dinner party Snow and his guests discuss the limits of machines trying to simulate human thinking.[2] Snow's guests are Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, J. B. S. Haldane and Alan Turing.[3]