LEADER 00000nam 2200000Ia 4500 001 48185610 003 OCoLC 005 20020121195215.0 008 011020s2001 nyua b 001 0 eng d 010 00040200 020 0393322297 (pbk.) : 035 1071441 040 DPL|cDPL|dLKR 100 1 Davis, Martin,|d1928- 245 10 Engines of logic :|bmathematicians and the origin of the computer /|cMartin Davis. 260 New York :|bNorton,|c2001. 300 xii, 257 p. :|bill. ;|c21 cm. 500 Originally published under the title The universal computer. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-247) and index. 505 0 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. 650 0 Electronic digital computers|xHistory. 994 X0|bLKR
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