Computation and its limits
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QA76.95 .C63 2012
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QA76.95 .C63 2012
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
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| General Shelving - 3rd Floor | QA76.95 .C63 2012 | On Shelf |
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vi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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7162720
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-225) and index.
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Cockshott, W. P., Mackenzie, L. M., & Michaelson, G. (2012). Computation and its limits . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cockshott, W. Paul, 1952-, L. M. Mackenzie and Greg Michaelson. 2012. Computation and Its Limits. Oxford [England] ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cockshott, W. Paul, 1952-, L. M. Mackenzie and Greg Michaelson. Computation and Its Limits Oxford [England] ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Cockshott, W. P., Mackenzie, L. M. and Michaelson, G. (2012). Computation and its limits. Oxford [England] ; New York: Oxford University Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Cockshott, W. Paul, L. M Mackenzie, and Greg Michaelson. Computation and Its Limits Oxford University Press, 2012.
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