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Computation and its limits
Title statement Computation and its limits / Paul Cockshott, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Gregory Michaelson Personal name Cockshott, W. Paul (William Paul), 1952- (author) Publication Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 Phys.des. 1 online zdroj (vi, 239 stran) : ilustrace ISBN 9780191627002 (online ; pdf) 0191627003 Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. What is computation? -- 3. Mechanical computers and their limits -- 4. Logical limits to computing -- 5. Heat, information, and geometry -- 6. Quantum computers -- 7. Beyond the logical limits of computing? -- 8. Hypercomputing proposals. Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Note Způsob přístupu: World Wide Web Defekty eBooks on EBSCOhost Another responsib. Mackenzie, L. M. (author) Michaelson, Greg, 1953- (author) Subj. Headings počítačová věda computer science * výpočetní metody computational methods * výpočetní technika computer technology * numerická analýza numerical analysis Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Conspect 004 - Počítačová věda. Výpočetní technika. Informační technologie UDC 51-3 , 004.9:51-3 , 004 , 519.6 , (0.034.2:08) Country Velká Británie ; Spojené státy americké Language angličtina Document kind Electronic sources URL http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=433887 book
"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"--Provided by publisher.
1. Introduction -- 2. What is computation? -- 3. Mechanical computers and their limits -- 4. Logical limits to computing -- 5. Heat, information, and geometry -- 6. Quantum computers -- 7. Beyond the logical limits of computing? -- 8. Hypercomputing proposals.
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