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OverviewComputation 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: 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: 9781280594779ISBN 10: 1280594772 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 03 February 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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