Computation and its Limits

Name: Computation and its Limits
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198729129
Price: 7350 KES
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ISBN: 9780198729129

by Gregory Michaelson , Lewis M Mackenzie , Paul Cockshott

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 019872912X

ISBN-13 9780198729129

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 23rd, 2015

Print length 246 Pages

Weight 484 grams

Dimensions 24.70 x 19.10 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Mathematical logic Popular science Physics Mathematical / Computational / Theoretical physics Mathematical physics Computer science Mathematical theory of computation

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Although we are entirely unaware of it, computation is central to all aspects of our existences. Every day we solve, or try to solve, a myriad of problems, from the utterly trivial to the bafflingly complex. This book explains why it is possible to do computation and what the ultimate limits of it are, as understood by modern science.

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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