Computing
Subtitle: a historical and technical perspective
By: Yoshihide Igarashi, Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan, Tom Altman, University of Colorado Denver, USA,  Mariko Funada, Hakuoh University, Oyama, Japan, Barbara Kamiyama, Gumma University, Kiryu, Japan
Contributors: Altman, Tom; Funada, Mariko; Kamiyama, Barbara
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781482227413
Subjects: Computer science
Notes: "A Chapman & Hall Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dawn of counting; title: Representation of numbers; title: Rational and irrational numbers; title: Prime numbers; title: Euclid's elements; title: Diophantus of Alexandria and the Arithmetica; title: Secret writing in ancient civilization; title: The abacus; title: Book of calculation by Fibonacci; title: Decimal fractions and logarithms; title: Calculating machines; title: Solutions to algebraic equations; title: Real and complex numbers; title: Cardinality; title: Boolean algebras and applications; title: Computability and its limitations; title: Cryptography from the medieval to the modern ages; title: Electronic computers; title: Numerical methods; title: Modular arithmetic; title: Cybernetics and information theory; title: Error detecting and correcting codes; title: Automata and formal languages; title: Artificial intelligence; title: Programming languages; title: Algorithms and computational complexity; title: The design of computer algorithms; title: Parallel and distributed computing; title: Computer networks; title: Public-key cryptography; title: Quantum computing.