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The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing / Martin Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Martin, 1928-2023, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electronic digital computers--History.
- Electronic digital computers.
- History.
- Mathematicians--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 222 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Leibniz's dream
- Boole turns logic into algebra
- Fregeb : from breakthrough to despair
- Cantor : detour through infinity
- Hilbert to the rescue
- Godel upsets the applecart
- Turing conceives of the all-purpose computer
- Making the first universal computers
- Beyond Leibniz's dream.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781138502086
- 1138502081
- 9780815384021
- 0815384025
- OCLC:
- 1002123662
- Publisher Number:
- 99975968893
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