The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing

Martin Davis

ISBN 10: 0393047857 / ISBN 13: 9780393047851

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, United States, 2000

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• Titolo: The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
• Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, United States
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393047857
• ISBN 13: 9780393047851
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Very Good+
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Non Fiction

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Riassunto

A pioneer in computer development chronicles the history of the machine, and the software that makes it tick, elucidating the core principles driving every calculation, stored record, and mouse click.

Product Description

How do today's computers perform such a wide variety of tasks? Davis illustrates how the answer lies in the fact that computers are essentially engines of logic. Their hardware and software embodies concepts developed by logicians sugh as Gottfried Leibniz, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing.