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Computation and its limits /

Cockshott, W. Paul, (1952-)

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Computation and its limits /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Computation and its limits // Paul Cockshott, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Greg Michaelson.
Author:	Cockshott, W. Paul,
other author:	Mackenzie, L. M.
Published:	Oxford :Oxford University Press, : 2015,c2012.,
Description:	vi, 239 p. :ill. ;25 cm.
Subject:	Computer science. -
ISBN:	9780198729129

Computation and its limits /
Cockshott, W. Paul,1952-

Computation and its limits /Paul Cockshott, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Greg Michaelson. - Oxford :Oxford University Press,2015,c2012. - vi, 239 p. :ill. ;25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is computation? --

"Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical realit! y. 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.

ISBN: 9780198729129UK22.50Subjects--Topical Terms:

523869
Computer science.

LC Class. No.: QA76.95 / .C63 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 004

Computation and its limits /
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505 0 # $t What is computation? -- $t Mechanical computers and their limits -- $t Logical limits to computing -- $t Heat, information, and geometry -- $t Quantum computers -- $t Beyond the logical limits of computing? -- $t Hypercomputing proposals.
520 # $a "Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical realit! y. 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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