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Computation and its Limits (Hardcover): Paul Cockshott, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Gregory Michaelson

Computation and its Limits (Hardcover)

Paul Cockshott, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Gregory Michaelson

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Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical reality. It begins by exploring the mystery of why mathematics is so effective in science and seeks to explain this in terms of the modelling of one part of physical reality by another. Going from the origins of counting to the most blue-skies proposals for novel methods of computation, the authors investigate the extent to which the laws of nature and of logic constrain what we can compute. In the process they examine formal computability, the thermodynamics of computation and the promise of quantum computing.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2012
First published: April 2012
Authors: Paul Cockshott (Reader) • Lewis M. Mackenzie (Senior Lecturer) • Gregory Michaelson (Professor of Computing Science)
Dimensions: 253 x 196 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-964032-4
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General
Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > Mathematical theory of computation
Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > General
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LSN: 0-19-964032-7
Barcode: 9780199640324

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