The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing / Martin Davis.
By: Davis, Martin [author.].
Publisher: Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2018Description: xv, 222 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138502086 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Electronic digital computers -- History | Mathematicians -- BiographyGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | QA76.17 .D38 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012989 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.