ISBN: 9780393047851
author:
Martin Davis
other title:
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
publishing house:
W. W. Norton & Company
publication date: 2000
-10
language:
English
price: USD 26.95
number of pages: 256
The Road from Leibniz to Turing
Martin Davis
Overview
How do today's computers perform such a wide variety of tasks? Davis illustrates how the answer lies in the fact that computers are essentially engines of logic. Their hardware and software embodies concepts developed by logicians sugh as Gottfried Leibniz, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing.
