Computers are everywhere today--at work, in the bank, in artist's
studios, sometimes even in our pockets--yet they remain to many of
us objects of irreducible mystery. How can today's computers
perform such a bewildering variety of tasks if computing is just
glorified arithmetic? The answer, as Martin Davis lucidly
illustrates, lies in the fact that computers are essentially
engines of logic. Their hardware and software embody concepts
developed over centuries by logicians such as Leibniz, Boole, and
Godel, culminating in the amazing insights of Alan Turing. The
Universal Computer traces the development of these concepts by
exploring with captivating detail the lives and work of the
geniuses who first formulated them. Readers will come away with a
revelatory understanding of how and why computers work and how the
algorithms within them came to be.
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