| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 222 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface to Third Edition; Preface to Second Edition; Preface; Introduction; 1: Leibnizs Dream; 2: Boole Turns Logic into Algebra; George Booles Hard Life; 3: Frege: From Breakthrough to Despair; 4: Cantor: Detour through Infinity; 5: Hilbert to the Rescue; 6: Gadel Upsets the Applecart; 7: Turing Conceives the All-Purpose Computer; 8: Making the First Universal Computers; 9: Beyond Leibnizs Dream; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
"The breathtakingly rapid pace of change in computing makes it easy to overlook the pioneers who began it all. Written by Martin Davis, respected logician and researcher in the theory of computation, The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing explores the fascinating lives, ideas, and discoveries of seven remarkable mathematicians. It tells the stories of the unsung heroes of the computer age - the logicians. New to the thrid edition; much expanded version of the discussion of artificial intelligence and current technology, and the way it confirms the significance of Turing's pencil-and-paper universal machine. Further exploration of the relationship between Kronecker and Cantor."--Provided by publisher |
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Electronic digital computers -- History.
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Mathematicians -- Biography.
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Ordinateurs -- Histoire. |
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Mathématiciens -- Biographies. |
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Mathematicians |
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Electronic digital computers |
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Computers |
| Genre |
Biography |
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
9781351384827 9781351384810 |
| ISBN |
9781351384827 (electronic book) |
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1351384821 (electronic book) |
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9781315144726 (electronic book) |
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1315144727 (electronic book) |
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9781351384803 |
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1351384805 |
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9781351384810 (ePub ebook) |
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1351384813 |
| Standard No. |
9781351384810 |
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