The information age owes its existence to a little-known but crucial development, the theoretical study of logic and the foundations of mathematics. The Great Formal Machinery Works draws on original sources and rare archival materials to trace the history of the theories of deduction and computation that laid the logical foundations for the digital revolution.
Jan von Plato examines the contributions of figures such as Aristotle; the nineteenth-century German polymath Hermann Grassmann; George Boole, whose Boolean logic would prove essential to programming languages and computing; Ernst Schr der, best known for his work on algebraic logic; and Giuseppe Peano, cofounder of mathematical logic. Von Plato shows how the idea of a formal proof in mathematics emerged gradually in the second half of the nineteenth century, hand in hand with the notion of a formal process of computation. A turning point was reached by 1930, when Kurt G del conceived his celebrated incompleteness theorems. They were an enormous boost to the study of formal languages and computability, which were brought to perfection by the end of the 1930s with precise theories of formal languages and formal deduction and parallel theories of algorithmic computability. Von Plato describes how the first theoretical ideas of a computer soon emerged in the work of Alan Turing in 1936 and John von Neumann some years later.
Shedding new light on this crucial chapter in the history of science, The Great Formal Machinery Works is essential reading for students and researchers in logic, mathematics, and computer science.
Автор: Lo Bello Anthony Название: Origins of Mathematical Words ISBN: 1421410982 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421410982 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7207.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: These and hundreds of other terms wait to be discovered within the pages of this mathematical and etymological treasure chest.
Автор: M.S. Macrakis Название: Scarcity`s Ways: The Origins of Capital ISBN: 0792347609 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792347606 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In economics, the existence of capital is taken for granted, yet it is difficult to establish for it a robust definition. This title is an exploratory essay on the origins of capital and the foundations of thermodynamics. It is suitable for historians and philosophers of science and economics, and engineering thermodynamicists.
Описание: Where the Truth Lies is an absorbing account of a case of suspected fraud involving the tragic career of the molecular biologist Franz Moewus that illustrates all that can go wrong in scientific knowledge-making.
Автор: J.B.H. Peek; Jan Bergmans; J. A. M. M. van Haaren; Название: Origins and Successors of the Compact Disc ISBN: 9048181542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048181544 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19589.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book traces the origins of the CD system and the subsequent evolution of digital optical storage, with a focus on the contributions of Philips to this field, which released and demonstrated a prototype in March 1979.
Автор: G.F. Leneaux; Pierre Duhem; V.N. Vagliente; G.H. W Название: The Origins of Statics ISBN: 9401056587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401056588 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 41925.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: If ever a major study of the history of science should have acted like a sudden revolution it is this book, published in two volumes in 1905 and 1906 under the title, Les origines de la statique.
Автор: Loney Название: An Elementary Treatise on Statics ISBN: 1316603814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316603819 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7603.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1917, this textbook presents a detailed and contained introduction to statics. Primarily aimed at undergraduate students of science, engineering and mathematics, the book considers statics from the very beginning and assumes only elementary prior knowledge of the ordinary processes of the differential and integral calculus.
Описание: A critical study of the work of Elie Metchnikoff, the founding father of modern immunology. It explores Metchnikoff`s development as an embryologist, showing how it prepared him to propose his theory of host-pathogen interaction.
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