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Engines of logic : mathematicians and the origin of the computer
- Title
- Engines of logic : mathematicians and the origin of the computer / Martin Davis.
- Author
- Davis, Martin, 1928-2023.
- Publication
- New York : Norton, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QA76.17 .D38 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 257 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "This book is about the underlying concepts on which our modern computers are based and about the people who developed these concepts ... it includes the stories of the lives of these people and explains some of their thought.
- Uniform Title
- Universal computer
- Alternative Title
- Universal computer
- Mathematicians and the origin of the computer
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published under the title: The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing.
- Princeton has 2001 paperback printing.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-247) and index.
- Contents
- Leibniz's dream -- Boole turns logic into algebra -- Frege : from breakthrough to despair -- Cantor : detour through infinity -- Hilbert to the rescue -- Gödel upsets the applecart -- Turing conceives of the all-purpose computer -- Making the first universal computers -- Beyond Leibniz's dream.
- ISBN
- 0393322297 (pbk.)
- 9780393322293 (pbk.)
- 0393047857 (VARIANT)
- 9780393047851 (VARIANT)
- LCCN
- 00040200
- OCLC
- ocm48185610
- SCSB-14536330
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library