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The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing / Martin Davis.

By: Davis, Martin, 1928- [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.
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.
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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.

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