Computation and Its Limits

Gregory Michaelson, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Paul Cockshott

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Altri dati

Formato:
Hardback
Editore:
Oxford University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
248
Dimensioni:
253 X 196
Codice EAN:
9780199640324
Generi:
Computers & Web, Computer Science
Altre informazioni:
69 b/w line drawings, 17 b/w halftones
Prezzo di copertina:
£ 35,00

I contenuti

Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical reality. It begins by exploring the mystery of why mathematics is so effective in science and seeks to explain this in terms of the modelling of one part of physical reality by another. Going from the origins of counting to the most blue-skies proposals for novel methods of computation, the authors investigate the extent to which the laws of nature and of logic constrain what we can compute. In the process they examine formal computability, the thermodynamics of computation and the promise of quantum computing.

Indice

1. Introduction; 2. What is computation?; 3. Mechanical computers and their limits; 4. Logical limits to computability; 5. Heat, information and geometry; 6. Quantum computers; 7. Beyond the logical limits of computing?; 8. Hyper computing proposals