| Description |
xii, 257 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Notes |
Originally published under the title The universal computer. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-247) and index. |
| Contents |
Leibniz's dream -- Boole turns logic into algebra -- Frege: from breakthrough to despair -- Cantor: detour through infinity -- Hilbert to the rescue -- G\AN232\odel upsets the applecart -- Turing conceives of the all-purpose computer -- Making the first universal computers -- Beyond Leibniz's dream. |
| Sujet |
Electronic digital computers -- History.
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| ISBN |
0393322297 (pbk.) : |
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