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Engines of logic : mathematicians and the origin of the computer / Martin Davis.
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Davis, Martin, 1928-2023
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Universal computer
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Norton, 2000.
Description
xii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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QA76.17 .D38 2001
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Electronic digital computers
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"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.
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Mathematicians and the origin of the computer
ISBN
0393322297 ((pbk.))
9780393322293 ((pbk.))
0393047857 ((VARIANT))
9780393047851 ((VARIANT))
LCCN
00040200
OCLC
48185610
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