The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
Martin Davis
"This book is about the underlying concepts on which our modern computers are based and about the people who developed these concepts ... it includes the stories of the lives of these people and explains some of their thought. Leibniz's dream -- Boole turns logic into algebra -- Frege : from breakthrough to despair -- Cantor : detour through infinity -- Hilbert to the rescue -- Gödel upsets the applecart -- Turing conceives of the all-purpose computer -- Making the first universal computers -- Beyond Leibniz's dream
類別:
年:
2000
出版商:
W. W. Norton & Company
語言:
english
頁數:
260
ISBN 10:
0393047857
ISBN 13:
9780393047851
文件:
DJVU, 1.83 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2000