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.
Описание: A full history of the French Foreign Ministry - the Quai d`Orsay - in the years before World War I. The author throws light on French policy and actions during the July crisis, and contributes to the debate over the origins of World War I.
Описание: What if reading Genesis 2-3 in its ancient Near Eastern context shows that the creation account makes no claims regarding Adam and Eve`s material origins? John Walton`s groundbreaking insights into this text create space for a faithful reading of Scripture along with full engagement with science, creating a new way forward in the human origins debate.
Автор: Calman Название: The Nature and Origins of Japanese Imperialism ISBN: 0415865395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415865395 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A controversial account that highlights Japan`s twentieth-century imperialism, tracing it back to economic imperatives at the root of the 1873 crisis.
Название: Origins of world war i ISBN: 0521102189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521102186 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Discusses and examines the arguments traditionally put forward as explanations for the First World War. The book concludes with an alternative proposition for explaining the War, based on elites and coteries, their background and training, and on their unique agendas.
Описание: The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals a
Автор: Lester Название: Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance ISBN: 1107007836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107007833 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book reveals the ways in which those responsible for creating Britain`s nineteenth-century empire sought to make colonization compatible with humanitarianism.
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.
Описание: In The Origins of the Grand Alliance, William T. Johnsen provides the first comprehensive analysis of military collaboration between the United States and Great Britain before the Second World War.
Описание: Focuses on a talented, brave, but tiny minority of whites - liberals, radicals, communists, Trotskyists, humanists, Christians, idealists - who rejected the growing racism of post-war South Africa and worked to breach the dividing line between black and white.
Описание: This book offers a novel explanation of the determinants of economic policy in India in its high growth phase. It is written to meet the highest standards of scholarship and also to be accessible to a variety of readers including scholars, students, journalists, policymakers and anyone interested in the politics of economic development.
Описание: The story of Nelson Mandela's and the African National Congress' triumph over Apartheid in South Africa is well known. All but forgotten are the African leaders who spoke against the system of white rule in its infancy. The founders of the ANC were members of the Natives Representative Council, a legislative adjunct of South African Parliament elected by Africans between 1937 and 1950, when the Council was abolished. Their speeches during Council sessions document their eloquence and quiet dignity when facing their oppressors, who used the speeches to make aspects of Apartheid more acceptable.In November 1946, the Council sent its Freedom Resolution to the UN, stating they would no longer cooperate with the South African government unless Africans were given complete equality and segregation was abolished. The speeches of the NRC are published here for the first time, along with discussion of the Council's elections, its members and the white government who used the NRC's rhetoric to its own ends.
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