The universal computer
Subtitle: the road from Leibniz to Turing
By: Martin Davis
Edition: Third edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781138502086; 9780815384021
Subjects: Electronic digital computers; Mathematicians; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Leibniz's dream; title: Boole turns logic into algebra; title: Fregeb : from breakthrough to despair; title: Cantor : detour through infinity; title: Hilbert to the rescue; title: Godel upsets the applecart; title: Turing conceives of the all-purpose computer; title: Making the first universal computers; title: Beyond Leibniz's dream.