Engines of Logic
Author | : Martin Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Martin Davies |
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Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : Martin Davis |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1466505206 |
The breathtakingly rapid pace of change in computing makes it easy to overlook the pioneers who began it all. Written by Martin Davis, respected logician and researcher in the theory of computation, 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. The story begins with Leibniz in the 17th century and then focuses on Boole, Frege, Cantor, Hilbert, and Gödel, before turning to Turing. Turing’s analysis of algorithmic processes led to a single, all-purpose machine that could be programmed to carry out such processes—the computer. Davis describes how this incredible group, with lives as extraordinary as their accomplishments, grappled with logical reasoning and its mechanization. By investigating their achievements and failures, he shows how these pioneers paved the way for modern computing. Bringing the material up to date, in this revised edition Davis discusses the success of the IBM Watson on Jeopardy, reorganizes the information on incompleteness, and adds information on Konrad Zuse. A distinguished prize-winning logician, Martin Davis has had a career of more than six decades devoted to the important interface between logic and computer science. His expertise, combined with his genuine love of the subject and excellent storytelling, make him the perfect person to tell this story.
Author | : Martin Davis |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780393322293 |
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. Originally published as The Universal Computer. Reprint.
Author | : Clifford A. Truesdell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-01-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642810794 |
Mon but n'a jamais be de m'occuper des ces matieres comme physicien, mais seulement comme /ogicien ... F. REECH, 1856 I do not think it possible to write the history of a science until that science itself shall have been understood, thanks to a clear, explicit, and decent logical structure. The exuberance of dim, involute, and undisciplined his torical essays upon classical thermodynamics reflects the confusion of the theory itself. Thermodynamics, despite its long history, has never had the benefit of a magisterial synthesis like that which EULER gave to hydro dynamics in 1757 or that which MAXWELL gave to electromagnetism in 1873; the expositions in the works of discovery in thermodynamics stand a pole apart from the pellucid directness of the notes in which CAUCHY presented his creation and development of the theory of elasticity from 1822 to 1845. Thermodynamics was born in obscurity and disorder, not to say confusion, and there the common presentations of it have remained. With this tractate I aim to provide a simple logical structure for the classical thermodynamics of homogeneous fluid bodies. Like any logical structure, it is only one of many possible ones. I think it is as simple and pretty as can be.
Author | : Paul M. Churchland |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780262531429 |
This work summarizes results from neuroscience and recent work with artificial neural networks that together suggest a unified set of answers to questions about how the brain actually works; how it sustains a thinking, feeling, dreaming self; and how it sustains a self-conscious person.
Author | : Joel N. Shurkin |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780393314717 |
An introduction to the feuding researchers and inventors who made the computer possible, from the huge early models to the creation of the microchip and beyond. It discusses John Mauchly and Presper Eckert who developed the Electric Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) during World War II.
Author | : Philip Reeve |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Children's stories, English |
ISBN | : 9780956627698 |
Author | : Mark Priestley |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2011-02-14 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1848825552 |
Today, computers fulfil a dazzling array of roles, a flexibility resulting from the great range of programs that can be run on them. A Science of Operations examines the history of what we now call programming, defined not simply as computer programming, but more broadly as the definition of the steps involved in computations and other information-processing activities. This unique perspective highlights how the history of programming is distinct from the history of the computer, despite the close relationship between the two in the 20th century. The book also discusses how the development of programming languages is related to disparate fields which attempted to give a mechanical account of language on the one hand, and a linguistic account of machines on the other. Topics and features: Covers the early development of automatic computing, including Babbage’s “mechanical calculating engines” and the applications of punched-card technology, examines the theoretical work of mathematical logicians such as Kleene, Church, Post and Turing, and the machines built by Zuse and Aiken in the 1930s and 1940s, discusses the role that logic played in the development of the stored program computer, describes the “standard model” of machine-code programming popularised by Maurice Wilkes, presents the complete table for the universal Turing machine in the Appendices, investigates the rise of the initiatives aimed at developing higher-level programming nota tions, and how these came to be thought of as ‘languages’ that could be studied independently of a machine, examines the importance of the Algol 60 language, and the framework it provided for studying the design of programming languages and the process of software development and explores the early development of object-oriented languages, with a focus on the Smalltalk project. This fascinating text offers a new viewpoint for historians of science and technology, as well as for the general reader. The historical narrative builds the story in a clear and logical fashion, roughly following chronological order.
Author | : Chase Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781735208701 |
An introduction to computer engineering for babies. Learn basic logic gates with hands on examples of buttons and an output LED.
Author | : W. D. Hart |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-08-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139491202 |
Examines the relations between logic and philosophy over the last 150 years. Logic underwent a major renaissance beginning in the nineteenth century. Cantor almost tamed the infinite, and Frege aimed to undercut Kant by reducing mathematics to logic. These achievements were threatened by the paradoxes, like Russell's. This ferment generated excellent philosophy (and mathematics) by excellent philosophers (and mathematicians) up to World War II. This book provides a selective, critical history of the collaboration between logic and philosophy during this period. After World War II, mathematical logic became a recognized subdiscipline in mathematics departments, and consequently but unfortunately philosophers have lost touch with its monuments. This book aims to make four of them (consistency and independence of the continuum hypothesis, Post's problem, and Morley's theorem) more accessible to philosophers, making available the tools necessary for modern scholars of philosophy to renew a productive dialogue between logic and philosophy.