Computation and Its Limits
| AUTHOR | MacKenzie, Lewis M.; Michaelson, Gregory; Cockshott, Paul |
| PUBLISHER | Oxford University Press, USA (04/07/2012) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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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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ISBN-13:
9780199640324
ISBN-10:
0199640327
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
264
Carton Quantity:
1
Product Dimensions:
7.70 x 0.40 x 9.70 inches
Weight:
1.60 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Dust Cover,
Table of Contents,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
GB
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational
Science | Computer Science
Dewey Decimal:
004
Library of Congress Control Number:
2011945375
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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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