Engines of logic : mathematicians and the origin of the computer / Martin Davis.

Author
Davis, Martin, 1928-2023 [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Norton, 2000.
Description
xii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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    Summary note
    "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.
    Notes
    • Originally published under the title: The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing.
    • Princeton has 2001 paperback printing.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-247) and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    Other title(s)
    Mathematicians and the origin of the computer
    ISBN
    • 0393322297 ((pbk.))
    • 9780393322293 ((pbk.))
    • 0393047857 ((VARIANT))
    • 9780393047851 ((VARIANT))
    LCCN
    00040200
    OCLC
    48185610
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