Book description
The breathtakingly rapid pace of change in computing makes it easy to overlook the pioneers who began it all. 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.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface to Third Edition
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Leibniz’s Dream
- 2 Boole Turns Logic into Algebra
- 3 Frege: From Breakthrough to Despair
- 4 Cantor: Detour through Infinity
- 5 Hilbert to the Rescue
- 6 Gödel Upsets the Applecart
- 7 Turing Conceives the All-Purpose Computer
- 8 Making the First Universal Computers
- 9 Beyond Leibniz’s Dream
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Universal Computer, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2018
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781351384810
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