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The computer and the brain / by John von Neumann.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957, author.
- Series:
- Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures.
- Yale University. Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computers.
- Cybernetics.
- Nervous system.
- Nervous system--Data processing.
- Brain--Data processing.
- Brain.
- Neural computers.
- Brain--physiology.
- Nervous System.
- computers.
- cybernetics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Brain--physiology.
- Computers.
- Cybernetics.
- Nervous System.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 82 pages ; 21 cm
- 8vo.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven :, Yale University Press, 1958.
- Contents:
- Preface / Klara von Neumann, page v-x
- Introduction, page 1
- Part 1. The computer, page 3
- The analog procedure, page 3
- The digital procedure, page 6
- Logical control, page 11
- Mixed numerical procedures, page 22
- Precision, page 24
- Characteristics of modern analog machines, page 28
- Characteristics of modern digital machines, page 29
- Part 2. The brain, page 39
- Simplified description of the function of the neuron, page 39
- The nature of the nerve impulse, page 40
- Stimulation criteria, page 52
- The proble of memory within the nervous system, page 60
- Digital and analog parts in the nervous system role of the genetic mechanism in the above context, page 69
- Codes and their role in the control of functioning of the machine, page 70
- The logical structure of the nervous system, page 74
- Nature of the system of notations employed, page 76
- The language of the brain not the language of mathematics, page 80.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Adolph Matz in 1983. Address label of Adolph Matz. Second printing, October 1958.
- ISBN:
- 0300024150
- 9780300024159
- OCLC:
- 6821480
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