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The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Martin, 1928- (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, [2018]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Electronic digital computers > History.
Mathematicians > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.