The universal computer
Subtitle: the road from Leibniz to Turing
By: Martin Davis
Edition: Turing centenary ed.
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boca Raton, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781466505193
Subjects: Electronic digital computers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Leibniz's dream; title: Boole turns logic into algebra; title: Frege : 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; title: Epilogue; title: Notes.