Computation and Its Limits
Author:   Paul Cockshott (Reader, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow University of Glasgow, UK University of Glasgow, UK University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Lewis M MacKenzie (Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9781280594779


Pages:   246
Publication Date:   03 February 2012
Format:   Electronic book text
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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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Author:   Paul Cockshott (Reader, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow University of Glasgow, UK University of Glasgow, UK University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Lewis M MacKenzie (Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
ISBN:  

9781280594779


ISBN 10:   1280594772
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   03 February 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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